Thursday, 3. February 2011
Topic: Space - on February 3, 2011 at 1:00:00 PM CET
NASA finds 1000 possible new planets
Scientists with NASA's Kepler mission announced Wednesday that they had identified more than 1,200 likely new planets in the past year - a revolutionary development in the quest to understand what lies beyond our solar system.
This celestial bonanza represents more than a tripling of the number of known distant planets. It also includes a remarkable single system with at least six planets orbiting its sun - the most populated solar system found so far outside our own.
nasa.gov washingtonpost.com latimes.com voanews.com bbc.co.uk
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