How Two Artists Imagined Kepler 186f

2016/10/24 に公開
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Ever wonder how artists conceive of worlds beyond our solar system? Tim Pyle and Robert Hurt, both graphic artists for NASA's Spitzer Science Center at Caltech, talk about how they conceptualized the look of Kepler 186f based on what little was known about it. According to scientists, the exoplanet was Earth-sized and it was within the habitable zone -- a distance that meant it might (or might not) contain water.