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Kepler-452b – Earth’s Older, Bigger Cousin

Sunday, July 26, 2015 14:35
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26 July 2015

View larger. | Face to face! Artist's concept of Earth (l) and Kepler 452b. Image via NASA. - The Kepler mission has confirmed the first near-Earth-size planet in the habitable zone – or zone where liquid water can exist – around a sunlike star. 

Dreamers and visionaries have long imagined finding another Earth. This week (July 23, 2015) at a NASA teleconference, scientists with the planet-finding Kepler mission took a step closer to that dream with the discovery of the first nearly Earth-sized planet orbiting in the habitable zone – or zone where liquid water can exist – of its sunlike star.

The planet is located 1,400 light-years away, in direction our constellation Cygnus the Swan. It has many similarities – and also some differences – to the world on which we stand.

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