ScienceCasts: Getting to Know the Goldilocks Planet

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NASA's Kepler spacecraft is discovering a veritable avalanche of alien worlds. As the numbers mount, it seems to be just a matter of time before Kepler finds what astronomers are really looking for: an Earth-like planet orbiting its star in the "Goldilocks zone".

NOTE: The TESS mission was selected to move into the formulation stage in the spring of 2013.

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