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Nasa’s Kepler space telescope finds possible 'new Earth'

 

Kepler is searching for planets as small as Earth, including those orbiting stars in a warm, habitable zone where liquid water could exist on the surface of the planet Photo: AP

By Andy Bloxham

9:32PM GMT 05 Dec 2011

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