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NASA Announces Discovery of 1,284 New Exoplanets, 9 in “Goldilocks Zone”
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NASA Announces Discovery of 1,284 New Exoplanets, 9 in “Goldilocks Zone”

NASA held a teleconference today to announce the confirmed discovery of 1,284 new planets as part of the Kepler Space Telescope’s primary mission. The new batch of planets, the largest found at any one time, bring the total number of new planets discovered by Kepler to 2.325. Of particular interest, the new batch includes 550 […]

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Does Tau Ceti Harbor Earth’s Sister Planet?
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Does Tau Ceti Harbor Earth’s Sister Planet?

Source: University of Hertfordshire A team of astronomers based out of the University of Hertfordshire has discovered compelling evidence that the Tau Ceti system, only 12 light years away from Earth, contains at least  5 planets, two of which are orbiting within the star’s “habitable zone.”   The find, which was made using a new modelling technique which employs […]

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