Artist's concept of Kepler 22b, an extrasolar planet found ?
This artist's concept illustrates Kepler-22b, a planet known to comfortably circle in the habitable zone of a sun-like star. It is the first planet that NASA's Kepler mission has confirmed to orbit in a star's habitable zone, the region around a star where liquid water, a requirement for life on Earth, could persist. The planet is 2.4 times the size of Earth, making it the smallest yet found to orbit in the middle of the habitable zone of a star like our sun
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11105763
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48499056
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4875px x 3656px
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© Stocktrek Images / Mary Evans
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Stocktrek Images
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