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NASA's Kepler finds massive alien planet 180 light years away - The Week Magazine

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NASA's Kepler finds massive alien planet 180 light years away
The Week Magazine
NASA's Kepler space telescope has discovered its first alien planet since malfunctioning in May 2013, and it's a big one: HIP 116454b is a "super Earth" about 20,000 miles wide and 12 times more massive than our planet.
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