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Kepler finds scores of planets around cool dwarf stars

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NASA’s rebooted mission, K2, seeks out new worlds closely orbiting stars smaller than the Sun.

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Skibba, R. Kepler finds scores of planets around cool dwarf stars. Nature (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2016.20853

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