Quote:Using data from NASA's Kepler space telescope, citizen scientists have discovered a planet roughly twice the size of Earth located within its star's habitable zone, the range of orbital distances where liquid water may exist on the planet's surface. The new world, known as K2-288Bb, could be rocky or could be a gas-rich planet similar to Neptune. Its size is rare among exoplanets - planets beyond our solar system.

(09-20-2019, 10:28 AM)Demixl Wrote: I don't think you'll discover something with a regular telescope. You need to visit NASA and one of their telescopes but that's out of the budget. My daughter has a telescope, I bought it from the beginners' section but it's doing a good job, we love to study the Moon and the stars with it at night. It's a Celestron PowerSeeker 50 AZ that we got for 50 bucks and it's more than enough for a child. Maybe, in the future, we'll buy a professional one, if she'll still love to use them of course. I found it on https://www.paramountind.com/best-telescope-for-beginners/

(09-20-2019, 09:48 PM)Johny_Bonny Wrote:

(09-20-2019, 10:28 AM)Demixl Wrote: I don't think you'll discover something with a regular telescope. You need to visit NASA and one of their telescopes but that's out of the budget. My daughter has a telescope, I bought it from the beginners' section but it's doing a good job, we love to study the Moon and the stars with it at night. It's a Celestron PowerSeeker 50 AZ that we got for 50 bucks and it's more than enough for a child. Maybe, in the future, we'll buy a professional one, if she'll still love to use them of course. I found it on https://www.paramountind.com/best-telescope-for-beginners/

There are regular telescopes that can zoom far enough to see nebulas, meaning that you don't need a NASA telescope to find the extraterrestrials.