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Science

Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts) Wed Dec 2, 2015, 09:45 AM Dec 2015

GIF All the planets Kepler has found so far

Kepler is suited to detecting larger planets, and ones that orbit more quickly (closer to their star). There are almost certainly plenty of farther-out and smaller planets that we just can't quite detect yet.