NASA Finds Kepler-385 System With 7 Planets Bigger Than Earth

PHOTO Illustration of Kepler-385 which has seven planets (photo: dock. NASA)

JAKARTA - The United States Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) has discovered seven new planets from Kepler Space Telescope data that have been retired since 2018.

The seven planets in this one system are named Kepler-385. NASA explains that each region of the planet they find has more radiation heat than its parent star.

This number is said to be more than any planet in the Solar System. Interestingly, the seven planets are larger than Earth, but smaller than Neptune's planets.

The news of this discovery adds to a long line of successfully verified planetary systems by NASA. Of the 4,400 planetary candidates in the Kepler catalog, the Kepler-385 system has become the most interesting finding so far.

NASA's Kepler mission has found most of the known exoplanets and this new catalog will allow astronomers to learn more about their characteristics, NASA Center for Research, Jack Lissauer, said in an official release.

From the latest data description, NASA says that there is a star like the Sun at the center of the Kepler-385 system. The star measures 10 percent larger and 5 percent hotter than the Sun.

Meanwhile, the seven planets inside the system are of different size. The two planets on the inside are slightly larger than Earth and are predicted to have a thin atmosphere with a rocky surface.

The other five planets are larger than the other two planets. Each of the five planets has a radius about twice the Earth radius. Unlike the two planets on the inside, these five planets are expected to have thick atmospheres.