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  • 2010
  • Sep
  • 2

Kepler Discovers Multiple Planets … ing a Single Star

Maria found us this topical submission presented at NASA. Here’s a taste:

NASA's Kepler spacecraft has discovered two Saturn-sized planets transiting the same sun-like star. The same system might contain a third world–a hot “super-Earth” one and a half times the size of Earth–but this is not yet confirmed. Researchers announced the results today at a NASA press conference.