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Earth-size, Habitable-zone Planet found hidden in early NASA Kepler data

This artist’s concept shows what exoplanet Kepler-1649c could look like on its surface. The planet is the closest to Earth in size and temperature found yet in data from the Kepler space telescope. Credit: NASA/Ames Research Center/Daniel Rutter

While the star it orbits is much smaller than our Sun, it gets about 75 percent of the sunlight Earth does. A team of transatlantic scientists, using reanalyzed data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope, has discovered an Earth-size exoplanet orbiting in its star’s habitable zone, the area around a star where a rocky planet could support liquid water.

Scientists discovered this planet, called Kepler-1649c, when looking through old observations from Kepler, which the agency retired in 2018...

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