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THREE PLANETS SUITABLE FOR HUMAN HABITATION DISCOVERED



NASA’s Kepler space telescope has discovered three planets that may be able to
support life, while one of them is the most earth-like world spotted to date,
scientists say.

Two exoplanets have been discovered in their stars’ habitable zones, what is
known as just the right range of distance where liquid water can exist on a
planet’s surface.

Kepler-62f is a rocky world 1.4 times bigger than earth and circles a star
smaller anddimmer than the sun. Its neighbor, Kepler-62e, is just 1.6 times
larger than Earth. Both are the smallest exoplanets ever found in their stars’
habitable zones.

Both Kepler-62e and f, “look very good as possibilities for looking for life,”
said Bill Borucki, the Kepler science principal investigator, of NASA’s Ames
Research Center in Moffet Field, California.

The third potential earth-like planet identified by the scientists is
Kepler-69c, standing at 1.7 times bigger than Earth and orbits a star similar to
our own sun. Borucki said it represents a big step towards finding the first
ever “alien earth”.

“We’re moving very rapidly towards finding an Earth analogue around a star like
the sun,” Borucki told SPACE.com. Kepler-69c lies 2,700 light-years away in the
Cyngusconstellation.

The Kelper-62 discovery paper, which is being led by Borucki, was published
Thursday in the journal Science.

The three potentially habitable worlds are part of a larger find. Scientists
unveiled a total of seven new exoplanets, five in the Kepler-62 system and two
in Kepler-69.

The five newfound planets range from 0.54 to1.95 times the size of earth, but
only Kepler-62e and f are potentially habitable.