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Kepler-20e

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…the first Earth-sized extrasolar planets, Kepler-20e and Kepler-20f (with radii 0.87 and 1.03 times the radius of Earth, respectively). By the end of its mission in 2018, Kepler had discovered 2,741 planets, about two-thirds of all then known extrasolar planets. Thousands more candidate planets awaited confirmation.
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…the first Earth-sized extrasolar planets, Kepler-20e and Kepler-20f (with radii 0.87 and 1.03 times the radius of Earth, respectively). By the end of its mission in 2018, Kepler had discovered 2,741 planets, about two-thirds of all then known extrasolar planets. Thousands more candidate planets awaited confirmation.
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