Kepler telescope doubles its count of known exoplanets
Latest data confirm nine more worlds in ‘habitable’ zone
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PLENTY OF PLANETS The Kepler space telescope has added 1,284 planets to the roughly 1,300 planets already discovered by tracking worlds passing in front of a star.
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