July 23, 2015 06:00 pm
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NASA Spies Earth-Sized Exoplanet Orbiting Sun-Like Star
An anonymous reader writes: NASA has announced that a new Earth like planet has been discovered that may be the closest thing yet to a first true "Earth twin". Kepler 452b, is located 1,000 light years away, is 60% larger than Earth, and orbits Kepler 452 at a distance similar to that between Earth and the Sun. "It is the first terrestrial planet in the habitable zone around a star very similar to the Sun," says Douglas Caldwell, an astronomer at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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