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The Kepler Mission is designed to survey our region of the Milky Way galaxy to discover Earth-size planets in the habitable zone.

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Sumali noong Disyembre 2008

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  1. (Cont. 2 of 2) and Joe Twicken at

  2. Join planet hunter in 10-mins to discuss the discovery of Earth's bigger, older cousin Kepler-452b

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    Tonight exoplanet experts/ team talk the hunt for Earth 2 on Slooh! .

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    "This is the first example of a small, possibly rocky planet in the habitable zone of a star like our own," says

  5. WOW! Thx for all the great qs on today! Stay tuned for more mission news!

  6. 1400 light years!

  7. We refer to 452b as elder cousin because the star and planet are 1.5 billion years older than Sun and Earth.

  8. 3.5 years was believed to be time to detect small planets in habitable zone.

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    Our successor is named

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    We demand very high confidence level for confirmation; requires observing from ground; Cygnus visible in summer only.

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    Fixed for first 4 years. Now changing for K2

  12. is in our Milky Way Galaxy about 1,400 light years from us.

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    Don't know for sure, but it's possible planet is entering runaway greenhouse phase. See:

  14. Merci beaucoup! :)

  15. It is unlikely to be tidally locked in such a long period orbit.

  16. In astronomer-speak, "A" refers to the star.

  17. Exoplanet discovery is large team effort. Bill Borucki first conceived of Kepler and proposed the mission to .

  18. These are really hard to find (& we've found 11 other around M & K stars) so it means 15-25% of stars have such.

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    If my Mom asks, it's named after her ;) But these boring names help us catalog them efficiently for now.

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