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More than 1,200 new planets discovered through Nasa Kepler space telescope | TheNews Linzer

More than doubling the number of confirmed planets orbiting alien stars, astronomers said that the discovery is a step toward finding Earth-like planets Nasa added more than 1,200 new planets to the known galaxy on Tuesday, more than doubling the number of confirmed planets orbiting alien stars. Revealing data from the Kepler space telescope, the astronomers said that the discovery is a step toward finding Earth-like planets. “This gives us hope that somewhere out there, around a star much like ours, we can eventually discover another Earth,” said Ellen Stofan, Nasa’s chief scientist. Analysis on data from Kepler found that 1,284 candidates have a 99% chance of being a planet, of 4,302 potential planets detected by the telescope. Kepler searches in particular for planets in the “habitable zone” – close enough to a star for water to pool on the surface of a planet. Not so close that the star scorches water out of existence, as on Mercury, and not so far that water only persists as i...

Pictures facilitate reading on facebook

Being dominated by Internet Facebook images is what is in front of them which is the introduction of a system that images can be "read" and can say to the people having vision problems. The Internet is changing. In the middle was completely text based Internet now the picture is now in the form. Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook every day, according to an estimate, other social networks, including an 80 billion photos are uploaded. This is good news for individuals who want to photography, while bad news for people with blind or partial vision, often could not say what is in the picture. But Facebook is going to introduce a new service Tuesday by which tried to rectify the problem will be. Blind navigation software to work on the computer screen, called readers. This allows software on the computer screen material is made by the combination of the format of audio or Braille (a system for blind and non-written characters that emerged the name upbeat points). But you can only re...

You can buy a self-driving car for only $22,000

Google may be testing their autonomous cars and teaching them not to hit on buses, but other automobile manufacturers are already selling vehicles that have to self-driving capabilities. Granted, these are not fully autonomous vehicles and they can only drive under certain conditions. One of these models is the new entry-level Civic LX sedan from Honda, which costs North of $ 22000. The new Civic will not be anywhere near as complex as Google's self-driving cars, but will pack an advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) that helps you stay on the track and automatically corrects the trajectory of the vehicle and adjusts its speed. In addition to runway markings, the car monitors the traffic in front of him and offers features like automatic braking and adaptive cruise control. Releated Stories: Volvo Plans To Be First Automaker To Go Fully 'Keyless' The Barack Obama administration has promised $ 4 million to accelerate deployment car as in the next decade, and vehicles as ...