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Nasa animations illustrate planet Kepler-16b, discovered by Nasa's Kepler mission, circling two stars. (Courtesy Nasa Jet Propulsion Laboratory, no sound) <\/p>\n
NASA has announced a torrent of new planet discoveries, hailing a \"bonanza\" of 715 worlds now known outside the solar system thanks to the Kepler space telescope's planet-hunting mission. <\/p>\n
A new method for verifying potential planets led to the volume of new discoveries from Kepler, which aims to help humans search for other worlds that may be like Earth. <\/p>\n
\"What we have been able to do with this is strike the mother lode, get a veritable exoplanet bonanza,\" said Jack Lissauer, a planetary scientist at NASA. <\/p>\n
This artist's impression illustrates Kepler-22b, a planet known to comfortably circle in the habitable zone of a sun-like star. Photo: NASA <\/p>\n
\"We have almost doubled just today the number of planets known to humanity,\" he said. <\/p>\n
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The 715 newly verified planets are orbiting 305 different stars. <\/p>\n
The latest announcement brings the number of known planets tobetween 1500 and 1800, depending on which of the five main extra-solar planet-discovery catalogues is used. <\/p>\n
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