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Kepler Planet Candidates, July 2015

Kepler Planet Candidates July 2015
The first fully automated and uniform process of the entire Kepler data set yields increases planet candidate count by 521 to a total of 4,696

There are 4,696 planet candidates now known with the release of the seventh Kepler planet candidate catalog – an increase of 521 since the release of the previous catalog in Jan. 2015. The blue dots show planet candidates from previous catalogs, while the yellow dots show new candidates from the seventh catalog. New planet candidates continue to be found at all periods and sizes due to continued improvement in the detection techniques. Notably, several of these new candidates are near-Earth-sized and at long orbital periods, where they have a chance of being rocky with liquid water on their surface.

Credit: NASA Ames/W. Stenzel