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NASA Scientists Discover 7 New Earth-Sized Planets

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Originally Posted: February 22, 2017

Dr. Robert Kehoe, Professor of Physics, is a special guest on Fox4 News.

The Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed the first known system of seven Earth-size planets around a single star. Three of these planets are firmly located in an area called the habitable zone, where liquid water is most likely to exist on a rocky planet. Watch