Using NASA’s Kepler Space
Telescope, astronomers have disorbiting a star in the “habitable
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they are all at least 40 percent
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every 130 days and receives one-
Division director at the agency’s
and the James Webb Space Telescope, will discover the nearest
their composition and atmospher-
is known, its mass and composi-
their chemical compositions. The
Kepler Space Telescope, which
star at high noon is only as bright
does not mean we know this planon the planet is strongly depenclay, research scientist at the Bay
sion operations, and science data
managed Kepler mission development. Ball Aerospace & Technolo-
and Space Physics at the Univerin Baltimore archives, hosts and
Kepler is NASA’s 10th Discovery
agency’s Science Mission Directorate.
be rocky.
many properties that resemble
ets with characteristics that mimic
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Kepler mission, visit: www.nasa.
gov/kepler.
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