NASA planet discovery: Kepler space telescope finds 1,284 new planets in our galaxy - TomoNews
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WASHINGTON — NASA's Kepler mission, launched in 2009 and with two more years to go, has detected 1,284 new exoplanets, including nine worlds that may be able to sustain life. NASA announced on Tuesday that the Kepler Space Telescope, which searches for planets in our Milky Way that lie up to 3,000 light years from Earth, has verified 1,284 new planets. Five hundred and fifty appear to be rocky based on their size. Of these 550, nine are located just far enough from their suns to suggest they may contain water. The latest finding nearly doubles the number of confirmed exoplanets and is the largest number of new planets announced at one time, reported Space. According to NASA's statement, the new findings can be credited to a computer simulation and a new statistical method that takes into account such factors as how many total stars are in our galaxy. The total number of exoplanets discovered now stands at 3,200. A total of 21 of these may be habitable. The Kepler mission shows that with at least 70 billion stars in our galaxy, there may be billions of habitable, Earth-sized planets out there that have yet to be discovered. ------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to TomoNews, where we animate the most entertaining news on the internets. Come here for an animated look at viral headlines, US news, celebrity gossip, salacious scandals, dumb criminals and much more! Subscribe now for daily news animations that will knock your socks off. Visit our official website for all the latest, uncensored videos: http://us.tomonews.com Check out our Android app: http://bit.ly/1rddhCj Check out our iOS app: http://bit.ly/1gO3z1f Get top stories delivered to your inbox everyday: http://bit.ly/tomo-newsletter Stay connected with us here: Facebook http://www.facebook.com/TomoNewsUS Twitter @tomonewsus http://www.twitter.com/TomoNewsUS Google+ http://plus.google.com/+TomoNewsUS/ Instagram @tomonewsus http://instagram.com/tomonewsus
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wow it is so amazing °~°
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Wow , Ingorance is still alive. I love people. Keep it Going...!
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nice
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I want to explore the science world..
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Gallifrey exists and the Time Lords are out there
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is this ture? i mean i love nasa but they cant be that many planets like ours really??????????????????????
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wow 3000 light years from the earth so we can found life there ??
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thank you sir,
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from black galaxy to colorful galaxy level sky
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There so sure that planets look like that...WE HAVENT EVEN SEEN THE ONE WE ARE ON AND ITS 2016 I've had yet to seen a real view of EARTH
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HOW DO THEY KNOW ALL THIS SHIT WHEN NO ONE HAS EVER SEEN SPACE...OR EVEN BEEN TO THE MOON...this is bullshit!!
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good. beam me up.
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And they are all Nibirus coming into the inner solar system to destroy us.
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I want to see picture of alient planet before I die
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Just imagine how religion freaks will react if they discover life .
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Its almost pointless we already know its over 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 and beyond planets out there it just too far
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All part of the alien deception aproaching. Do people still believe this nonsense? What a joke...I don't believe this for a second... Childhoods end, very telling.... No aliens folks, just godriel ( lucifer, satan ) and the fallen ones .... Truth really is stranger than fiction. I never would have believed it but the bible has more truth than our science books. Look into the real truth, it really will set you free. ||| Written by a recovering atheist .... Think about it.
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i shall explore all these planets on No Mans Sky.. lol
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There has to be life in one of those planets . Man the Galaxy and this earth and oceans are so fascinating to me
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I hope everybodies religion works out for them kuz shits about to get real
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