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Kepler Discovers First Earth-Sized Exoplanets

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday December 20, 2011 @06:46AM from the romulus-and-remus dept.

ananyo writes "NASA's Kepler telescope has reached one of its major mission milestones: finding an Earth-sized planet outside the Solar System. What's more, it has done it twice in the same star system. Whizzing around the star Kepler-20, about 290 parsecs (946 light-years) from Earth, is not only an Earth-sized planet, but also something just a touch smaller — a Venus."

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Remember the good ol' days by Metabolife · 2011-12-20 07:00 · Score: -1, Troll

When stars used to be named after important scientists, and not machinery.
This is like naming Euclid's Algorithm: Wax Engraving - 2024