Kepler discovered five new extra-solar planets, bringing to eight the total number of those so far identified by the NASA spacecraft. The announcement was made by the scientific mission of the William Borucki at a press conference in Washington at the American Astronomical Society. Launched March 9, 2009, Kepler was designed and built in order to detect Earth-sized extrasolar planets in the habitable zone of a sample of 150 thousand stars that make up his observation traget. The 5 planets recently discovered, referred to as Kepler 4b, 5b, 6b, 
7b and 8b, not really characteristics have not actually "land" have, in fact, mass between that of Neptune and Jupiter, the orbital periods of 3 to 5 days and temperatures of several thousand degrees, so as to preclude the presence of any form of life on a their hypothetical surface. The discovery, however, is an important confirmation of the potential for Keplere and bodes well about the actual potential of the probe to hit the scientific objectives for which it was built. Credit: NASA
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