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Google hopes the open-sourced code will prove a useful starting point for developing similar models for other NASA missions, like K2 (Kepler's second mission) and the upcoming "Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite" mission.
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Sitting around a Sun-like star 2,545 light years away in the constellation Draco, Kepler-90i – like Earth – is also the third rock from its sun - though it sits much closer, circling its star every 14.4 days.
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Kepler has managed to detect a change in brightness when a planet passes in front of a star from the vantage point of the telescope.
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Hot Earths are Earth-sized exoplanets that exist close to their stars, making them unlikely to support life. 
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A planetary system comprising four promising planets that could be rocky have also been confirmed.
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Whether it is a new planet, a number of stars – even exploding ones – or a circumbinary planet, Kepler has never failed to disappoint the curious minds of space enthusiasts.
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The astronomers also used three different ground-based spectrographs to conduct high-resolution spectroscopic observations of K2-29b, in order to definitely verify it as a "hot Jupiter."
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Researchers used asteroseismology to study the internal properties of these planets and their stars to a level that are unseen before.
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The team discovered that if you bring the model forward 13.8 billion, none of the known 700 quintillion possible planets look like Earth.  






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