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English: June 19, 2017

Small Planets Come in Two Sizes

https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/ames/small-planets-come-in-two-sizes

Researchers using data from the W. M. Keck Observatory and NASA's Kepler mission have discovered a gap in the distribution of planet sizes, indicating that most planets discovered by Kepler so far fall into two distinct size classes: the rocky Earth-size and super-Earth-size (similar to Kepler-452b), and the mini-Neptune-size (similar to Kepler-22b). This histogram shows the number of planets per 100 stars as a function of planet size relative to Earth.
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Source https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/press-web19_small_planets_two_sizes.jpg
Author NASA/Ames Research Center/CalTech/University of Hawaii/B.J. Fulton

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