spacedout on Instagram: "In 2009, NASA launched the Kepler Space Telescope and aimed it at a single, unremarkable patch of the Milky Way. For years, Kepler watched in silence, measuring tiny dips in starlight as planets passed in front of their stars. What it uncovered was staggering. From that small slice of sky alone, scientists identified thousands of planets, including several rocky worlds similar in size to Earth, quietly orbiting in the habitable zones of their stars. The implication was i

ᴜɴɪᴠᴇʀsɪᴀ on Instagram: "🟢 Kepler-1649c is one of the most Earth-like planets discovered in Kepler’s data. It orbits a small red dwarf star and lies in the habitable zone the distance where liquid water could exist on the surface. The planet is almost the same size as Earth and receives a similar amount of light from its star. Because it orbits a red dwarf its year lasts only 19 days but the temperature may still be suitable for liquid water. Kepler-1649c was found during a reanalysis of old Ke

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