He mailed 200, 000 letters to constituents, sat down for broadcast interviews with ABC and Sacramento TV station KOVR and gave interviews to People and Newsweek magazines and a local newspaper, the Merced Sun-Star.
But, based on the limited numbers of planets found so far, Dr Boss has estimated that each Sun-like star has on average one "Earth-like" planet.
Kepler-69c, the biggest of this newly discovered trio is estimated to be 70 percent larger than Earth and takes 242 days to revolve around its sun-like star Kepler-69.
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In this system, one star is slightly bigger than our sun, and the other star is slightly smaller.
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Depending on its initial mass, it might collapse to a compact hot star known as a white dwarf (when the star's mass is less than 1.4 times the mass of our sun) or to a neutron star (for stars 1.4 to about three times the mass of our sun) or to a black hole (for stars more massive than three times the mass of our sun).
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It might be the fact that he meant that our Sun is a second generation star.
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From that distance, a star like the sun is visible through binoculars.
Astronomers detected the new planet as it crossed the face of the distant "sun", dimming the star's light as it passed in front.
Since Kepler 62 is a cooler star than our sun, planets can orbit closer to it than the Earth can to our sun before overheating.
Our sun does not orbit another star, but roughly half of the stars in our Milky Way galaxy do, as part of a binary system.
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Mr. Scharf makes vivid the mind-boggling nature of the universe by noting, for instance, that the space between a star like the sun and its nearest neighbor is 30 million times the diameter of the sun itself and that there are 10 billion stars in the universe for every human being who has ever walked the Earth.
At least, this is what happens to a pulsar that is the remains of a lonely, companionless star such as the sun.
In a forthcoming paper in Icarus, however, Dr Adams advances another intriguing possibility: the earth could desert the sun and team up with another star.
Kepler-37b is a tad larger than our heavenly dance partner, the Moon, and whizzes round a star much like our Sun, with two larger planets in its system for company.
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Mr. JACK LISSAUER (NASA): This is likely to be or plausibly the first rocky planet around a normal star other than the sun, and in that sense it's a class of planets like Earth.
One of the four, dubbed KOI 172.02, is a mere 1.5 times the size of the Earth and around a star like our own Sun - perhaps as near as the current data allow to finding an "Earth 2.0".
In contrast, the third Earth-like planet, Kepler 69c, orbits a star very similar to our sun (that is, hotter than Kepler 62).
Its parent star is similar to the sun, again unlike those of the other two candidates, both of which orbit cooler, dimmer stars.
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Our sun is enriched with heavy elements, with metals, and oxygen, and so forth, that have to have been made inside another star that died before our sun and our solar system formed.
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Some researchers have suggested that materials produced in the Sun's atmosphere are pulled into the star's interior, where they circulate in convection currents for millions of years before making their way back to the outer atmospheric layers.
The planet orbits a star about half as big as our Sun, positioned some 9, 000 light-years away.
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Planets orbiting stars beyond the sun are labelled merely with the name of the star and a suffix letter.
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KELT-2Ab orbits a star that is slightly bigger than the sun, within a binary system called HD 42176.
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The planet's host star is dimmer and cooler than our sun, but the planet is also 15% closer than we are to the sun.
The Wall Street Journal reported last Thursday that astronomers are now confident that every star in the Milky Way galaxy is sun to at least one planet.
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