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    rocky. It orbits on the inner edge of the habitable zone of a red dwarf, Kepler-438, about 460.2 light-years from Earth in the constellation Lyra. It receives...
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  • Kepler-438 is a red dwarf in the constellation Lyra, about 590 light years from Earth. It is notable for its planetary system, which includes Kepler-438b...
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    Kepler-442b (also known by its Kepler object of interest designation KOI-4742.01) is a confirmed near-Earth-sized exoplanet, likely rocky, orbiting within...
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  • Kepler-438 and Kepler-440, it was announced that the star has an extrasolar planet (a super-Earth) orbiting within the habitable zone, named Kepler-442b...
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    Johannes Kepler (/ˈkɛplər/; German: [joˈhanəs ˈkɛplɐ, -nɛs -] ; 27 December 1571 – 15 November 1630) was a German astronomer, mathematician, astrologer...
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    from direction of the Kepler-438 star meets initial criteria for extraterrestrial intelligence, preprint says; orbiting Kepler-438 in its habitable zone...
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  • 5 has a transiting planet (b) Kepler-59 19h 08m 09.0s +46° 38′ 24″ 14.8 has two transiting planets (b and c) Kepler-438 18h 46m 35.0s +41° 57′ 04″ 15...
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  • giant. Kepler-12 is located approximately 881 parsecs (2,870 light-years) away from Earth. The star also has an apparent magnitude of 13.438, which means...
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    Kepler-186 is a main-sequence M1-type dwarf star, located 177.5 parsecs (579 light years) away in the constellation of Cygnus. The star is slightly cooler...
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    Kepler-452 is a G-type main-sequence star located about 1,810 light-years away from Earth in the Cygnus constellation. Although similar in temperature...
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    Kepler-1649c is an Earth-sized exoplanet, likely rocky, orbiting within the habitable zone of the red dwarf star Kepler-1649, the outermost planet of...
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    +46° 33′ 59.438″. With an apparent visual magnitude of 15.5, this star is too faint to be seen with the naked eye. The two planets, Kepler-26b and Kepler-26c...
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  • Kepler-283 c is an exoplanet orbiting the K-type star Kepler-283 every 93 days in the circumstellar habitable zone, discovered by the Kepler space telescope...
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  • Kepler-12b is a hot Jupiter that orbits G-type star Kepler-12 some 900 parsecs (2,900 ly) away. The planet has an anomalously large radius that could not...
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  • two planets announced are designated Kepler-47b, and Kepler-47c, and the third, later discovery is Kepler-47d. Kepler-47 is the first circumbinary multi-planet...
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  • Kepler-22 is a Sun-like star in the northern constellation of Cygnus, the swan, that is orbited by at least 1 planet found to be unequivocally within the...
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    boomerang made of a mammoth tusk in south Poland". Nature. 329 (6138): 436–438. Bibcode:1987Natur.329..436V. doi:10.1038/329436a0. S2CID 4361636. Amos,...
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  • Kepler-51 is a Sun-like star that is about 500 million years old. It is orbited by four planets—Kepler-51b, c, d and e—first three of which are super-puffs...
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  • Kepler-1708b (previously known as KIC 7906827.01) is a Jupiter-sized exoplanet orbiting the Sun-like star Kepler-1708, located in the constellation of...
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  • Kepler-1625b is a super-Jupiter exoplanet orbiting the Sun-like star Kepler-1625 about 2,500 parsecs (8,200 light-years) away in the constellation of...
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  • Kepler-385 (also designated KOI-2433) is an F-type main-sequence star located about 4,900 light-years (1,500 parsecs) away from Earth in the constellation...
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    Kepler-11, also designated as 2MASS J19482762+4154328, is a Sun-like star slightly larger than the Sun in the constellation Cygnus, located some 2,110...
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    Kepler-1625b I is a possible moon of exoplanet Kepler-1625b, which may be the first exomoon ever discovered (pending confirmation), and was first indicated...
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    Kepler-16 is an eclipsing binary star system in the constellation of Cygnus that was targeted by the Kepler spacecraft. Both stars are smaller than the...
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  • Kepler-70, also known as KIC 5807616 and KOI-55, is a star about 3,600 light-years (1,100 parsecs) away in the constellation Cygnus, with an apparent visual...
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  • Kepler-80, also known as KOI-500, is a red dwarf star of the spectral type M0V. This stellar classification places Kepler-80 among the very common, cool...
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  • Kepler-1649b is a Venus-like exoplanet orbiting Kepler-1649. Kepler-1649 is a type-M red dwarf star estimated to be roughly ¼ the radius of the Sun with...
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    Kepler-42, formerly known as KOI-961, is a red dwarf located in the constellation Cygnus and approximately 131 light years from the Sun. It has three known...
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  • that, "it was by such a use of hypotheses, that both Newton himself and Kepler, on whose discoveries those of Newton were based, made their discoveries"...
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  • Kepler-1652b (also known by its Kepler Objects of Interest designation KOI-2626.01) is a super-Earth exoplanet, orbiting within the habitable zone of the...
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