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News | August 16, 2015

How to teach 'exoplanets' and the search for habitable worlds

This artist's concept depicts one possible appearance of the exoplanet Kepler-452b, the first near-Earth-size world to be found in the habitable zone of star that is similar to our sun. Image credit: NASA Ames/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle
This artist's concept depicts one possible appearance of the exoplanet Kepler-452b, the first near-Earth-size world to be found in the habitable zone of star that is similar to our sun. Image credit: NASA Ames/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle

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