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Wide view of Kepler panellists2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jack Lissauer, Planetary Scientist, Kepler Science:\"Not only is Kepler-11 telling us about planetary systems of a type that we had no idea existed, but right now, it's providing...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003e1. Wide view of Kepler panellists\u003cbr/\u003e2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jack Lissauer, Planetary Scientist, Kepler Science:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Not only is Kepler-11 telling us about planetary systems of a type that we had no idea existed, but right now, it's providing our best clues on the compositions of these planets as individual worlds.\"\u003cbr/\u003e3. Wide side view of Kepler panellists\u003cbr/\u003e4. NASA animation of six planets revolving around the star Kepler-11, UPSOUND: (English) Jack Lissauer, Planetary Scientist, Kepler Science: \"But like a very special clock, one with six hands moving at six different rates, and we interpret this as six planets orbiting very near the same plane. Now looking at it face on, and these are very close in, especially the inner five very close to one another, the most compact (cut to Lissauer talking) system of planets ever discovered by any technique anywhere.\"\u003cbr/\u003e5. Wide of panellists\u003cbr/\u003e6. Cutaway of reporter\u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE: (English) William Borucki, Principle Investigator, Kepler Science:\u003cbr/\u003e\"And what that's telling you is that the stars around us, that surround us, have huge number of planets and candidates for us to look at. And, if we find that earths are common, earth sized planets, are common in the habitable zone of stars, it's very likely that means life is common around these stars.\"\u003cbr/\u003e8. NASA animation of Kepler telescope in space\u003cbr/\u003e9. Wide of chart of comparative size of planets discovered so far by Kepler telescope\u003cbr/\u003e10. Wide of reporters in news conference\u003cbr/\u003e11. Wide of panellists\u003cbr/\u003eAn orbiting NASA telescope is finding whole new worlds of possibilities in the search for alien life, including more than 50 potential planets that appear to be in the habitable zone.\u003cbr/\u003eOn Wednesday at a news conference at NASA headquarters in Washington, new data from the ongoing Kepler telescope mission was released.\u003cbr/\u003eIn just a year of peering out at a small slice of the galaxy, the Kepler telescope has discovered 1,235 possible planets outside our solar system.\u003cbr/\u003eAmazingly, 54 of them are seemingly in the zone that could be hospitable to life - so called \"Goldilocks' zone\" - that is, not too hot or too cold, Kepler chief scientist William Borucki said.\u003cbr/\u003eUntil now, only two planets outside our solar system were even thought to be in the \"Goldilocks' zone.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAnd both those discoveries are highly disputed.\u003cbr/\u003eThe more than 1,200 newfound celestial bodies are not confirmed as planets yet, but Borucki estimates 80 percent of them will eventually be verified.\u003cbr/\u003e\"If we find that earths are common, earth sized planets, are common in the habitable zone of stars, it's very likely that means life is common around these stars,\" Borucki said.\u003cbr/\u003eAt least one other astronomer believes Kepler could be 90 percent accurate.\u003cbr/\u003eAfter that, it is another big step in proving that a confirmed planet has some of the basic conditions needed to support life, such as the proper size, composition, temperature and distance from its star.\u003cbr/\u003eMore advanced aspects of habitability such as atmospheric conditions and the presence of water and carbon require telescopes that aren't built yet.\u003cbr/\u003eJust because a planet is in the habitable zone does not mean it has life.\u003cbr/\u003eMars is a good example of that.\u003cbr/\u003eAnd even if some of these planets are found to contain life, it may not be intelligent life; it could be bacteria or mould or some kind of life form people can't even imagine.\u003cbr/\u003eAll the celestial bodies Kepler looks at are in our Milky Way galaxy, but they are so far away that travelling there is not a realistic option.\u003cbr/\u003eIn some cases it would take many (m) millions of years with current technology.\u003cbr/\u003eBut what Kepler is finding in distant parts of the galaxy could be applied to exploring closer stars, astronomers say.\u003cbr/\u003eBefore Wednesday, the count of confirmed planets outside the solar system stood at 519.\u003cbr/\u003eThat means Kepler could triple the number.\u003cbr/\u003eAnd those findings are from Kepler's scanning of just one four-hundredth of the night sky, so the actual number of planets out there is presumably hundreds of times greater, Borucki said.\u003cbr/\u003eThat is exciting to astronomers, since the more planets there are, the greater the odds that life exists elsewhere in the universe.\u003cbr/\u003eYale University astronomer Debra Fischer, who wasn't part of the Kepler team but serves as an outside expert for NASA, said the new information \"gives us a much firmer footing\" to hope for worlds that could harbour life.\u003cbr/\u003eKepler also found that there are many more relatively small planets than there are giant planets.\u003cbr/\u003eThat is encouraging, too: Astronomers think a planet needs to be solid - rocky like Earth or Mars - for life to develop.\u003cbr/\u003eAnd very large planets are unlikely to be solid; they are more prone to be gas behemoths like Jupiter.\u003cbr/\u003eSixty-eight of the planet candidates Kepler found are considered Earth-sized, including the first ones ever discovered to be smaller than Earth.\u003cbr/\u003eAn additional 288 planets were less than twice the size of Earth, which is still in that optimum zone for life.\u003cbr/\u003eOnly five of the 54 potentially habitable celestial bodies are close to the size of Earth, while the rest approach the gassy girths of Neptune or Jupiter, Borucki said.\u003cbr/\u003eTo be in the habitable zone, a planet has to be the proper distance from its star so that it could have liquid water on its surface, at least sometimes.\u003cbr/\u003eNASA considers habitable-zone temperatures to be roughly between 0 degrees and 200 degrees Fahrenheit (-17 to 93 Celsius).\u003cbr/\u003eThe proper distance varies by star; smaller, weaker stars, for example, would require planets to be closer to be habitable.\u003cbr/\u003eBecause of the various factors that could make planets more prone to life, University of California Santa Cruz astronomer Greg Laughlin created a formula that puts a dollar value on these far-off planets with the idea that the first planet that is incredibly similar to Earth would have a value of 1 (m) million US Dollars.\u003cbr/\u003eUntil Wednesday, the highest value Laughlin assigned to an exoplanet, which is what astronomers call a planet outside our solar system, was a measly 158 US 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