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NASA Kepler Telescope Discovers 715 New Planets

posted by mattie_p on Thursday February 27 2014, @02:31PM   Printer-friendly
from the I-bet-that's-all-of-them-now dept.

kef writes:

"NASA's Kepler mission has doubled the number of known planets outside of our solar system. In what can only be described as a "bonanza", 715 new planets have been reported thanks to the Kepler space telescope's planet-hunting mission. Using a new method for verifying potential planets led to the volume of new discoveries from Kepler, which aims to help humans search for other worlds that may be like Earth."

 
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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Jaruzel on Thursday February 27 2014, @04:00PM

    by Jaruzel (812) on Thursday February 27 2014, @04:00PM (#8025) Homepage Journal

    Amazing image.

    I was expecting it to look like a piece of fairy cake[1] to be honest.

    -Jar

    [1]Total_Perspective_Vortex [wikipedia.org]

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