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“Beyond Anything Found in Our Solar System” (Weekend Feature) – The Daily Galaxy –Great Discoveries Channel
“The search for planets is the search for life,” said Natalie Batalha, a Kepler mission scientist from NASA’s Ames Research Center. In the search for Earth-like habitable planets, occasionally something truly weird pops up, something unlike anything in our so…

The search for planets is the search for life, said Natalie Batalha, a Kepler mission scientist from NASAs Ames Research Center. In the search for Earth-like habitable planets, occasionally something truly weird pops up, something unlike anything in our solar system.
The “Exoplanet Era” officially began in October 1995, when Nobel-Prize laureates Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz revealed the first discovery of a planet outside our solar system, an exoplanet, orbiting a solar-type star in our home…