Summary Of The Article 'Found New Planets'

Decent Essays
Diana Zayas
Mrs. Valenzuela
English 3 / Period 5
26 October 2017
Thought Question: Found: New Planets! In the article “Found New Planets” some special equipment that is used and mentioned to look at planets and the outside world is a telescope. This is important because it gives us a closer look on what is happening in space at that exact moment. There are different types of telescopes. Some can see further some can make the too bright light dim down so you're able to see it correctly. The equipment discovered the exoplanets by using the kepler made by NASA. According to the article this telescope was 9 feet long and it can see 100,000 stars in one part of our milky way. For doing this NASA became very successful by discovering this. They

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