Exoplanet Measured with Remarkable Precision

Monday, August 18, 2014 - 12:10 in Astronomy & Space

Astronomers are not only discovering planets around distant suns, they are also starting to measure those worlds with astonishing precision. The diameter of a super-Earth named "Kepler 93 b" is now known to within an accuracy of 1%.

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