Kepler Oil Painting (IMAGE)

Penn State

Kepler Oil Painting

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Artist's impression of NASA's Kepler space telescope, which discovered thousands of new planets. New research, using Kepler data, provides the most accurate estimate to date of how often we should expect to find Earth-like planets near sun-like stars.

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NASA/Ames Research Center/W. Stenzel/D. Rutter

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