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Exoplanet tally soars above 1,000
The number of observed exoplanets - worlds circling distant stars - has passed 1,000.
Of these, 12 could be habitable - orbiting at a distance where it is neither "too hot" nor "too cold" for water to be liquid on the surface.
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"If we had more funding there would be more telescopes and that count would be much larger by now."
The Kepler space telescope, which spotted many of these worlds in recent years, broke down earlier this year. Scientists still have to trawl through more than 3,500 other candidates from this mission so the number could rapidly increase.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24549384
Of these, 12 could be habitable - orbiting at a distance where it is neither "too hot" nor "too cold" for water to be liquid on the surface.
...
"If we had more funding there would be more telescopes and that count would be much larger by now."
The Kepler space telescope, which spotted many of these worlds in recent years, broke down earlier this year. Scientists still have to trawl through more than 3,500 other candidates from this mission so the number could rapidly increase.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24549384
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