NASA finds family of habitable planets

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Submitted by coondoggie on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @03:10PM

coondoggie writes "NASA's star-gazing space telescope continues to find amazing proof that there are tons of habitable planets in space and we have only scratched the surface of what's out there. The space agency said today its Kepler space telescope spotted what it called its first Earth-size planet candidates and its first candidates in what it considers to be the habitable zone, a region where liquid water could exist on a planet's surface. Kepler also found six confirmed planets orbiting a sun-like star, Kepler-11. This is the largest group of transiting planets orbiting a single star yet discovered outside our solar system."
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by machxor (1226486) writes:

Maybe I'm missing something but why the link to the blog when it simply regurgitates what is in the Nasa link: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/news/new_planetary_system.html [nasa.gov]

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