Hunting "Solar Twins" with the Kepler Space Telescope
Thanks to observations from the Kepler satellite, an international team, led by CfA[1] at Harvard and involving researchers from the AIM Laboratory (CNRS/CEA/Université Paris Diderot), has just detected about twenty new analogues of the Sun whose age could be estimated[2], and including 8 stars that could be considered as "solar twins".
Click here to read the press release in French on the CEA website
E. Lemaitre, 2014-07-10 00:00:00
