For Your Astronomers: Kepler’s Tally Of Planets - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com

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Link: Kepler’s Tally of Planets - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com

 

NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered more than 950 confirmed planets orbiting distant stars. Planets with a known size and orbit are shown below, including Kepler 186f, an Earth-size planet in the habitable zone.

 

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This chart has been updated.

 

Link: Kepler’s Tally of Planets

 

Date of additions: 6^th January 2015