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"The systems that you fly past first contain planets which takes hundreds or even thousands of years to orbit their stars, whilst by the end they take mere hours or days. Designed to give the viewer an overview of the current distribution of exoplanets."
Given the huge number of already discovered planets, it's just a matter of time before we find, and confirm, Earth like planets.
This artist's rendering provided by NASA on Thursday, April 17, 2014 shows an Earth-sized planet dubbed Kepler-186f orbiting a star 500 light-years from Earth.
Astronomers have discovered what they say is the most Earth-like planet yet detected -- a distant, rocky world that's similar in size to our planet and exists in the Goldilocks zone where it's not too hot and not too cold for life.