Kepler’s Tally of Planets - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com
▻http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/science/space/keplers-tally-of-planets.html?_r=0
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Kepler’s Tally of Planets
NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered more than 100 confirmed planets orbiting distant stars. Planets with a known size and orbit are shown below, including five planets
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Two planetary systems with potentially Earth-like conditions - World Socialist Web Site
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Two planetary systems with potentially Earth-like conditions
By Bryan Dyne
22 April 2013
Astronomers studying planets outside the Solar System using NASA’s Kepler mission have found two planetary systems that include a total of three super-Earth sized planets that receive a similar amount of stellar radiation as the Earth, placing them in the “habitable zone” of their respective systems. The discoveries are another step towards finding a similar world to Earth around a similar star to the Sun.
