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Gallery: Some Of Kepler's Strange New Worlds Outside The Solar System

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.

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