Earth-like planet discovered by NASA scientists

July 24, 2015

Kepler-452b, described as Earth’s bigger older cousin, was discovered with NASA’s powerful Kepler telescope

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Earth-like planet discovered by NASA scientists

Kepler-452b is 60 percent larger than Earth and orbits around a star similar to our sun in just 385 days. The planet lives approximately 1,400 light years away, which would take our fastest spacecrafts 25 million years to get to.


 

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