Extrasolar haul: NASA's Kepler mission has discovered more than 700 potential extrasolar planets. On 15 June, NASA released the data associated with 306 parent stars that are likely to harbour planets. But the mission has been given until February 2011 to hold onto data for 400 other stars with the most Earth-like planet candidates asrnthe team pursues confirmations with ground-based observations.
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