Kepler telescope doubles its count of known exoplanets

Latest data confirm nine more worlds in ‘habitable’ zone

graph of kepler exoplanets

PLENTY OF PLANETS  The Kepler space telescope has added 1,284 planets to the roughly 1,300 planets already discovered by tracking worlds passing in front of a star.

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The galaxy is starting to feel a little crowded.