NASA Discovers 715 New Planets
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The number of verified “exoplanets,” planets that exist outside our solar system, now stands at around 1,700, but thousands of other “planet candidates” have been observed by NASA. The newly announced planets were verified though a new process that relies on the tendency of planets to exist in clusters.
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Most of the new planets are smaller than Neptune, and all exist in multi-planet systems. Four of the planets are in “habitable zones,” meaning the planets are at a distance from a star where liquid water might exist and it could be possible for life to exist.
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