NASA discovered planet that looks like Earth – Telegraaf.nl

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The space telescope Kepler from the US aerospace agency NASA has discovered a planet outside our solar system which may be habitable. This has John Grunsfeld of NASA announced Thursday. Judging by Kepler’s observations seems this planet of all detected planets closest to the earth

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The planet, the Kepler-452b, also seems to us with regard to the position relative to its sun. Our sun and those of Kepler-452b are equidistant from the planet. However, Kepler 452b 60 percent larger than Earth and the star of the Kepler-452b and a half billion years older than our sun. The planet is 1400 light-years away from Earth. A light year is nearly 9.5 trillion kilometers.

The Kepler was launched in March 2009. The space observer has about five hundred new planets revolving around stars discovered

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