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Mindwolf  ·  3923 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: NASA's Kepler Mission Announces a Planet Bonanza, 715 New Worlds.

Kepler's field of view is only 1/400th of the sky but it's range is further than 2700 Parsecs. So the planets discovered range between 127 and 8802 light years.