Kepler Detects A Super-Earth Transiting the Bright K-Dwarf HIP 116454

Despite a malfunction that ended its primary mission in May 2013, NASA’s Kepler spacecraft is still alive and working and has detected a newfound planet, HIP 116454b, has a diameter of 20,000 miles, two and a half times the size of Earth. Cambridge, Massachusetts – To paraphrase Mark Twain, the report of the Kepler spacecraft’s […]
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