Many wonder about what goes on beyond the stars and the planets orbiting around us, and thanks to Kepler Explorer ,free for iPad and iPhone, you can now look through over 2,300 alien planet candidates, which were discovered by NASA’s Kepler Mission. So far, around 2,300 alien planet candidates in about 1,800 distant planetary systems have been discovered.
The app first leads you through a drop-down menu, which lists all the discovered planetary systems that you can then move a slider to show planets’ orbits around their respective stars. Your also able to play with different possible compositions of the planet's body and atmosphere, using elements such as iron, rock, water and hydrogen to try out combinations consistent with the Kepler Mission’s findings.
Most of the planets are inhabitable to life, but some of the planets are Earth-sized temperate objects, meaning you could be scoping out an alien's home.
Source: Mashable
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