University of British Columbia discovered 17 new planets

  • Nearly two million stars have been studied by NASA’s four-year Kepler mission using the transit method for this discovery.
  • These new planets have been discovered in the Gold-lock zone where the presence of water on the rocky surface of the planets is also being estimated. Among the discovered planets, KIC-7340288b is an extremely rare planet.
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