NASA's Kepler mission finds 10 Earth-size exoplanets, 209 others
Source: CNN
The NASA Kepler mission has discovered 219 more exoplanets, including 10 Earth-size planets, program scientist Mario Perez said Monday at NASA's Ames Research Center in California.
Ten of the planets are potentially rocky, close to the size of Earth and within the habitable zone of the stars they orbit -- meaning they could support liquid water on their surface, Perez explained.
"The Kepler data set is unique, as it is the only one containing a population of these near-Earth analogs: planets with roughly the same size and orbit as Earth," he said.
With the addition of this latest release, Kepler has now identified 4,034 planet candidates, and 2,335 of them have been confirmed as exoplanets. The mission has also found 50 candidates similar in size to Earth, with more than 30 of them confirmed.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/19/us/exoplanets-nasa-kepler-announcement/index.html
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Why did god clutter up the universe with planets if only Earth has life on it?
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And, sadly, I must admit there are many times I agree with you.
