The histogram shows the number of planet discoveries by year for more than the past two decades of the exoplanet search. The blue bar shows previous non-Kepler planet discoveries, the light blue bar shows previous Kepler planet discoveries, the orange bar displays the 1,284 new validated planets.
NASA Ames/W. Stenzel; Princeton University/T. Morton
2016-05-10 08:26:27
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