Small planet found beyond the Earth's solar system

Astronomers have found a small planet outside our solar system that are smaller than planets outside our solar system discovered more than 800 scientists said.The planet, known as Kepler-37B, one of three flying yellow star similar to the sun and that is located in the constellation Lyra, Year light only about 210. One light year about 6 trillion miles (10 trillion kilometers), and see very large planets and they are not uncommon. Planets the size of Earth seen as very common, so we guess is that asteroids should be more common, "said Thomas Barclay, with Ames Research NASA's Center in Mountain View, smaller California.The planet, and more difficult to find. Kepler -37B, as well as two similar planets, was discovered with NASA Space Telescope of the same name, which examines the light from the sun is about 150,000 Kepler telescope like stars.The works by detecting the slight declines in the amount of light coming goal of stars orbiting planets resulting from the passage, or in transit, relative to the Observatory line of sight. smallest planet, and less obvious in planetary dip.Of confirmed found 833 outside our solar system, was discovered 114 of the Kepler science team, according to draft website.Nearly more 3000 candidate planets Kepler being analyzed.Planets located in "areas uninhabitable" around their host stars, where water can exist on the surface, of particular importance, and is believed to be the water needed for life.A planet on the situation in which the earth revolves around the sun and will take Year to fly around its parent star. at least two, preferably three or more, and there is a need to make sure that orbits crossing monitored telescope Kepler is actually the planet and not illuminated or some other star phenomenon.Kepler-37B flies about 10 times closer to its star than circles land of the sun, which gives the surface temperature of the degree of about 800 Fahrenheit (427 degrees Celsius), and this is one particular for housing in the nearby "University of Florida said.Mercury astronomer Eric Ford is the planet closet to the sun in our solar system, so scientists compared Kepler - 37B to Mercury Mini.Small planet, which is slightly larger than Earth's moon, and two brothers somewhat larger. Kepler-37C, which is slightly smaller than Venus, and circles the star trio mother in 21 days and Kepler 37d, about twice the size of Earth, is going on in the whole system 40 days.The will fall within the orbit of the planet Mercury, which revolves around the sun in 88 days.When We, in the first EXO-planets, they were all much larger than anything we have in the inner solar system. We did not know anything was smaller. This is the first time we were able to achieve a smaller, smaller than anything we have in our solar system, "Barkley said.The published research into the nature of this week.