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NASA finds 1,284 new planets

By Kelly Cohen
Published May 10, 2016 6:24pm ET
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NASA finds 1,284 new planets
An artist's concept depicts select planetary discoveries made to date by NASA's Kepler space telescope. (NASA/W. Stenzel)

The habitable universe got a bit bigger on Tuesday after NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope mission announced the discovery of 1,284 new planets outside of our solar system, dubbed “exoplanets.”

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