NASA's Kepler mission announced Wednesday the discovery of 715 new planets.
These newly-verified worlds orbit 305 stars, revealing multiple-planet systems much like our own solar system.
Nearly 95 percent of these planets are smaller than Neptune, which is almost four times the size of Earth.
This discovery marks a significant increase in the number of known small-sized planets more akin to Earth than previously identified exoplanets, which are planets outside our solar system.
Kepler observes 150,000 stars, and has found a few thousand of those to have planet candidates.
http://www.nasa.gov/ames/kepler/nasas-kepler-mission-announces-a-planet-bonanza
These newly-verified worlds orbit 305 stars, revealing multiple-planet systems much like our own solar system.
Nearly 95 percent of these planets are smaller than Neptune, which is almost four times the size of Earth.
This discovery marks a significant increase in the number of known small-sized planets more akin to Earth than previously identified exoplanets, which are planets outside our solar system.
Kepler observes 150,000 stars, and has found a few thousand of those to have planet candidates.
http://www.nasa.gov/ames/kepler/nasas-kepler-mission-announces-a-planet-bonanza
