New Planet Discovered in Old Data
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Text, News From The Universe. May 12, 2020
New Planet Discovered in Old Data
Long beyond a NASA missions active operation, the data it collected can be used to make new discoveries.
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Early Data from NASA's Kepler mission (2009 to 2018) was re-analyzed and a previously unknown, Earth-size exoplanet was found.
This planet, Kepler 1 6 4 9 c, orbits in the habitable zone of its star, like Earth orbits in the habitable zone of the Sun.
There is still much to learn about Kepler 1 6 4 9 c, including the presence of water and atmosphere, which are essential to life as we know it on Earth.
This news was brought to you in part by NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, CA