Kepler telescope identifies new ‘habitable zone’ planet
Orb slightly larger than Earth orbits sunlike star
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NEW WORLD The newly identified exoplanet Kepler 452b orbits a sunlike star 1,400 light-years away from Earth.
T. Pyle/JPL-Caltech/NASA
Orb slightly larger than Earth orbits sunlike star
NEW WORLD The newly identified exoplanet Kepler 452b orbits a sunlike star 1,400 light-years away from Earth.
T. Pyle/JPL-Caltech/NASA