KEPLER 1649 - 16 April 2020 - An illustration of Kepler-1649c orbiting around its host red dwarf star. A team of transatlantic scientists, using reana
KEPLER 1649 - 16 April 2020 - An illustration of Kepler-1649c orbiting around its host red dwarf star. A team of transatlantic scientists, using reanalyzed data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope, has discovered an Earth-size exoplanet orbiting in its star's habitable zone, the area around a star where a rocky planet could support liquid water. Scientists discovered this planet, called Kepler-1649c, when looking through old observations from Kepler, which the agency retired in 2018. While previous searches with a computer algorithm misidentified it, researchers reviewing Kepler data took a second look at the signature and recognized it as a planet. Out of all the exoplanets found by Kepler, this distant world – located 300 light-years from Earth – is most similar to Earth in size and estimated temperature - Photo: Geopix/NASA/Ames Research Center/Daniel Rutter
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