DailyGood: Six New Planets: Mini-Neptunes Found Around Sunlike Star

Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless. --Jamie Paolinetti Good News of the Day: NASA's Kepler space telescope has uncovered six new planets huddled around a sunlike star--odd worlds that astronomers have dubbed mini-Neptunes. Five of the new planets are closer to their parent star than Mercury is to the sun. The sixth world lies farther out, within a region that would fit inside the orbit of Venus. "This is the most closely packed known planetary system," said study co-author Jonathan Fortney, an astronomer with the University of California, Santa Cruz. These groundbreaking findings hold enormous potential for understanding the greater patterns of our own infinite existence. [ more ] Be The Change: Imagine the unlimited possibilities that nature creates and discover new things about yourself that you never knew existed. Share A Reflection! tell a friend | archives | unsubscribe a service of CharityFocus 104930 subscribers Rate: