Universe Today
With the latest Kepler space telescope exoplanet finding announced yesterday, the mighty planet hunter has now found 1,000 confirmed worlds -- with about 3,000 more planetary candidates just waiting for confirmation.
The NASA observatory has found exoplanets of many sizes -- smaller than Mercury, the size of our Moon, the size of Jupiter or larger, and in a couple of cases, Earth-sized worlds in the habitable regions of their stars. Below is a gallery of some of the observatory's notable finds.