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Earth’s Twin

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ART BY DANIELLE FUTSELAAR
This artist’s concept depicts Kepler-186f, the first validated Earth-sized planet orbiting a distant star in the habitable zone — a range of distances from a star where liquid water might pool on the surface. Scientists and artists worked together to help imagine the appearance of these distant worlds.
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ART BY DANIELLE FUTSELAAR
This artist’s concept depicts Kepler-186f, the first validated Earth-sized planet orbiting a distant star in the habitable zone — a range of distances from a star where liquid water might pool on the surface. Scientists and artists worked together to help imagine the appearance of these distant worlds.
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NASA AMES / SETI INSTITUTE / JPL-CALTECH
This diagram compares the planets of the inner solar system to Kepler-186, a five-planet system about 500 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus.