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Diagram of Kepler planetary systems (refer to description)
2012 Jan 31: Kepler's Planetary Systems
01/31/2012

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The artist's rendering depicts the multiple planet systems discovered by NASA's Kepler mission. Out of hundreds of candidate planetary systems, scientists had previously verified six systems with multiple transiting planets (denoted here in red). Now, Kepler observations have verified planets (shown here in green) in 11 new planetary systems. Many of these systems contain additional planet candidates that are yet to be verified (shown here in dark purple). For reference, the eight planets of the solar system are shown in blue.

Credit: NASA Ames/Jason Steffen, Fermilab Center for Particle Astrophysics

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