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Kepler Spacecraft Discovers New Multi-Planet Solar System

Posted on the ScienceDaily website (Oct. 5, 2011) — A team of researchers led by Bill Cochran of The University of Texas at Austin has used NASA's Kepler spacecraft to discover an unusual multiple-planet system containing a super-Earth and two Neptune-sized planets orbiting ... Continue

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Comment by Garland Coulson on October 26, 2011 at 9:20pm
Solar systems like ours with multiple planets are proving to be quite common.  I have a feeling we will eventually find life is common out there as well.

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