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NASA’s Kepler Mission Announces a Planet Bonanza, 715 New Worlds

Image: This artist rendition provided by NASA shows the Kepler space telescope. An artist’s rendition shows NASA’s Kepler space telescope.

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—February 26, 2014. NASA’s Kepler mission announced Wednesday the discovery of 715 new planets. These newly-verified worlds orbit 305 stars, revealing multiple-planet systems much like our own solar system.

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Nearly 95 percent of these planets are smaller than Neptune, which is almost four times the size of Earth. This discovery marks a significant increase in the number of known small-sized planets more akin to Earth than…

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