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Meet our galaxy’s 26 newest official exoplanets
The Kepler Telescope is doing exactly what it was meant to do, and that’s to detect as many exoplanets as possible. While there are still 2300 exoplanets still waiting for confirmation, there are 26 new exoplanets that have just been made official. Welcome to the neighborhood, planets.
For those you keeping score at home, that brings the total number of Kepler-confirmed extrasolar planets from 35 to 61, and almost triples the number of verified, multi-planet star systems, raising that number from 6 to 17.
And if you think that sounds impressive, remember: Kepler is just getting warmed up. With over 2,300 exoplanets in the wings still awaiting confirmed-planet status (and new candidate planets being discovered all the time), many astronomers believe it’s only a matter of time until Kepler achieves that which it was designed to do: discover Earth-like planets orbiting within the life-permitting “habitable zones” of other star systems (assuming, of course, that we haven’t already found one).
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