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Kepler69c
Kepler-69c Super-Venus
04/18/2013

Versions of Kepler-69c artist's rendition:
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TIFF 4000×2251 pixels, 11 Mb
Photoshop, 95 Mb

The artist's concept depicts Kepler-69c, a super-Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of a star like our sun, located about 2,700 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus.

Kepler-69c, is 70 percent larger than the size of Earth, and is the smallest yet found to orbit in the habitable zone of a sun-like star. Astronomers are uncertain about the composition of Kepler-69c, but its orbit of 242 days around a sun-like star resembles that of our neighboring planet Venus.

Credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech

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