Artwork: The Kepler telescope was launched to detect new worlds using the "transit method"
It's the largest number of worlds ever discovered in a planetary system outside our own.
The star known as Kepler-90, is just a bit hotter and larger than the Sun; astronomers already knew of seven...
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