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Topic:-New Earth-Like Planet Discovered by NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope

The discovery of the most Earth-like planet yet orbiting a distant star like our own sun, bringing to a dozen the number of small worlds potentially suitable for life spotted elsewhere in the galaxy.

The newly discovered planet, called Kepler-452b, is the smallest to date found orbiting in the habitable zone of a distant star—the area where the water considered essential for life could exist.

Every 385 days, the planet circles a star slightly brighter than the sun, located about 1,400 light years away in the Constellation Cygnus, the researchers said.

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Based on available data, the planet is most likely rocky, about 60% larger than Earth and about 1.5 billion years or so older, the researchers said. So far, there is no evidence that it has an atmosphere. The researchers don’t know the planet’s mass, but speculated that its gravity may be twice that on Earth.

“It is a pretty good close cousin to our Earth and our sun,” said John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for science at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Washington, D.C. “It is the closest so far.”

The Kepler astronomers, however, have no direct evidence that the newly found planet can actually support life.

As we all of us know that so many research has been conducted on  mars for the existing of life .in the similar way the NASA had discovered  which looking like earth .Still the researches are going on to know whether the existence of life as now so many disasters we don't know for how many years earth will be there it is an another source to survive