Article 5XRFC Jupiter Twin Spotted 17,000 Light-Years Away

Jupiter Twin Spotted 17,000 Light-Years Away

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George Dvorsky
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An exoplanet with distinctly Jupiter-like characteristics has been discovered in old data gathered by NASA's Kepler space telescope. Remarkably, Kepler made the observation using gravitational microlensing, in what is a first for a space-based observatory.

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