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PIA18018: Kepler-10 System
An artist's conception shows the Kepler-10 system, home to two rocky planets. In the foreground is Kepler-10c, a planet that weighs 17 times as much as Earth and is more than twice as large in size.
 Mission:  Kepler 
 Product Size:  5400 x 5400 pixels (w x h) 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA18018.tif (87.52 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA18018.jpg (1.904 MB)  

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An artist's conception shows the Kepler-10 system, home to two rocky planets. In the foreground is Kepler-10c, a planet that weighs 17 times as much as Earth and is more than twice as large in size. Planet formation theorists are challenged to explain how such a massive world could have formed.

For more information about the Kepler mission, visit http://www.nasa.gov/kepler.

More information about exoplanets and NASA's planet-finding program is at http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov.

Image Credit:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics/David Aguilar

Image Addition Date:
2014-06-02