Jupiter Twin Spotted 17,000 Light-Years Away - Gizmodo

The exoplanet, found in old Kepler data, is twice as far away as any other seen by the retired space telescope.

An exoplanet with distinctly Jupiter-like characteristics has been discovered in old data gathered by NASAs Kepler space telescope. Remarkably, Kepler made the observation using gravitational microle… [+5067 chars]

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