Kiwis Play Big Role in Planet Find
Listening to: BBC Radio 1
Excellent! More
sh!t hot science out of NZ:
It is nearly 25,000 light years away, with a ground temperature of minus 220deg,
but it looks more like Earth than any other planet found so far.>Ground-breaking work by a husband-and-wife team at the University of Canterbury’s
astronomy department has helped discover a planet and made “a major leap forward”
in the possibility of finding a habitable “second Earth”.Astronomers Dr Karen Pollard and Dr Michael Albrow are part of an international
team whose research is today being published by leading scientific journal Nature.
The BBC World article on
the find.
