Cobra Nightingale

I was working on a painting for these two, and it just kept reminding me of a romance novel cover, haha! So I had to quickly photoshop this together.

Also, the answer to the tagline is ‘no,’ but I guess that wouldn’t sell as many books ;)

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The number of known alien planets has just gone up by more than 60 percent.

NASA’s Kepler space telescope has discovered 1,284 new exoplanets, including nine rocky worlds that might be capable of supporting life as we know it, astronomers announced today (May 10). This is by far the largest haul of alien planets ever unveiled at one time.

The total exoplanet tally now stands at about 3,200, and Kepler has found 2,235 of them, NASA officials said.

“We now know that exoplanets are common, most stars in our galaxy have planetary systems and a reasonable fraction of stars in our galaxy have potentially habitable planets,” Paul Hertz, Astrophysics Division director at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C., said during a news conference today. “Knowing this the first step toward addressing the question, ‘Are we alone in the universe?’”

Indeed, data gathered by Kepler and other instruments suggest that about 25 percent of all the “normal” (main-sequence) stars in the Milky Way harbor roughly Earth-size planets in their habitable zones, that just-right range of distances at which liquid water can exist on a world’s surface.

There are at least 70 billion main-sequence stars in the galaxy, said Kepler mission scientist Natalie Batalha, of NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California.

“You can see, doing the math, that you’re talking about tens of billions of potentially habitable, Earth-sized planets out there in the galaxy,” Batalha said during today’s new conference.

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