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NASA’s Kepler mission announces largest collection of exoplanets ever discovered

10 May 2016 Astronomy Now

NASA’s Kepler mission has verified 1,284 new planets — the single largest finding of planets to date. Of the nearly 5,000 total planet candidates found to date, more than 3,200 now have been verified, and 2,325 of these were discovered by the space telescope. Launched in March 2009, Kepler is the first NASA mission to find potentially habitable Earth-size planets.

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  • Juno mission extended, will now study Jupiter’s moons and rings

    26 February 2021
  • Video provides thrilling bird’s eye view of Mars landing

    22 February 2021
  • Perseverance Mars rover lands on Mars, beams back dramatic photos

    19 February 2021
  • The case for, and against, the still-unseen Planet 9

    16 February 2021
  • ‘Farfarout’ confirmed to be really, seriously far out

    12 February 2021
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