NASA has found yet another intellect-blowing discovery in outer space. The Kepler mission announced on NASA's website that it has found 1284 fresh planets,which makes it "the single largest finding of planets to date.""This announcement more than doubles the number of confirmed planets from Kepler," said Ellen Stofan, and chief scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "This gives us hope that somewhere out there,around a star much like ours, we can eventually discover another Earth." The Kepler mission was first launched in March 2009 as an attempt to find potentially habitable Earth-size planets. Kepler monitors "150000 stars in a single patch of sky, and measuring the tiny,telltale dip in the brightness of a star that can be produced by a transiting planet." Since the whole project began, Kepler has verified 2325 fresh planet candidates from over 5000. The latest exciting planetary findings from Kepler only prove that there is still much to learn approximately other planets out there.
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