Kepler's Suns and Planets
This image shows all of the 1,235 candidates for exo-planets. Exo-planets are found by observing slight the slight dimming that a star exhibits when one of the planets passes in front of its view. Most of the exo-planets found are gas giants, but there are still a few being found that are rocky in nature and could very well be like Earth. I find this to be very fascinating because if planets around stars are this common, life probably is as well.
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