#space sounds

Hot New Planetary System Just Dropped.

We hope you like your planetary systems extra spicy. 🔥

A new system of seven sizzling planets has been discovered using data from our retired Kepler space telescope.

Named Kepler-385, it’s part of a new catalog of planet candidates and multi-planet systems discovered using Kepler.

The discovery helps illustrate that multi-planetary systems have more circular orbits around the host star than systems with only one or two planets.

Our Kepler mission is responsible for the discovery of the most known exoplanets to date. The space telescope’s observations ended in 2018, but its data continues to paint a more detailed picture of our galaxy today.

Here are a few more things to know about Kepler-385:

Listen to: The Hidden Music of Neptune by John Martini

Inspired by a tag set from @symbioticsimplicity I put together a bunch of the free "sounds of space" available from NASA and the ESA under creative commons, focusing on the ones from our solar system. 

NASA turned this space photo into sound — and it’s super creepy 🌌

Sounds from the surface of Venus recorded from the Venera 14 probe in 1982