# @nasaartemis on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/5mhV1Xmh3h
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/15347725-nasaartemis-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2015-07-26T13:58:58.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA Artemis (@nasaartemis) — https://gondola.cc/nasaartemis

## Caption

We received quite a few requests yesterday for a post about the recent discovery of a distant planet that's near-Earth-size. Here's a beauty, an artists concept of Earth’s bigger, older cousin !

Scientists using data from NASA's Kepler mission have confirmed the first near-Earth-size planet orbiting in the habitable zone of a sun-like star. The habitable zone is the region around a star where temperatures are just right for water to exist in its liquid form.

The artistic concept compares Earth (left) to the new planet, called Kepler-452b, which is about 60 percent larger. The illustration represents one possible appearance for Kepler-452b -- scientists do not know whether the planet has oceans and continents like Earth.

Both planets orbit a G2-type star of about the same temperature; however, the star hosting Kepler-452b is 6 billion years old, 1.5 billion years older than our sun. As stars age, they become larger, hotter and brighter, as represented in the illustration. Kepler-452b's star appears a bit larger and brighter. 
Image credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle - Artistic Concept

#nasa #kepler #space #exoplanet #nasabeyond #science ™nasa #goodsunday

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