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Kepler mission spots new Earth-like planet

Original post made on Jul 23, 2015

A planet being hailed as a possible "Earth 2.0" has been discovered by the NASA Kepler exploration mission.

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Posted by konrad M. Sosnow
a resident of Cuesta Park
on Jul 23, 2015 at 2:18 pm

Congratulations NASA! This is very exciting and expected.
We knew that finding a near earth sized planet in the habitable zone would be much harder than finding a Jupiter sized planet. However, once many planets had need found, it was inevitable that some would be earth sized planets in the habitable zone.


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