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This artist's concept compares Earth (left) to the new planet, called Kepler-452b, which is about 60 percent larger in diameter. CREDIT: NASA/JPL-CALTECH/T. PYLE

Keck Observatory confirms planet described as ‘an older cousin to Earth’

Posted on 6:15 pm, Friday, July 24, 2015. Tags: , , , ,

The W. M. Keck Observatory has confirmed the first near-Earth-size planet in the “habitable zone” around a sun-like star.

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Researchers: Planets the size of Earth are common

Posted on 7:26 am, Wednesday, January 9, 2013. Tags: , , , ,

MEDIA RELEASE A team of astronomers from the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Hawaii at Manoa has found that 17 percent of all sun-like stars have planets 1 to 2 times the diameter of Earth in close orbits. The finding, based on an analysis of the first three years of data from […]

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Keck involved in Kepler discovery of two planets transiting same star

Keck involved in Kepler discovery of two planets transiting same star

Posted on 10:57 pm, Thursday, August 26, 2010. Tags: , ,

MEDIA RELEASE NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has discovered the first confirmed planetary system with more than one planet crossing in front of, or transiting, the same star. The transit signatures of two distinct planets were seen in the data for the sun-like star designated Kepler-9. The planets were named Kepler-9b and 9c. The discovery incorporates seven […]

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