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Source: http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-kepler-mission-discovers-bigger-older-cousin-to-earth Here is a small list I found which highlights what it has and its about: It's the smallest exoplanet discovered to date discovered orbiting in the habitable zone of a G2-class star, just like the Earth and the Sun. Kepler-452b is 60 percent larger in diameter than Earth and is considered a super-Earth-size planet. It's likely rocky. While Kepler-452b is larger than Earth, its 385-day orbit is only 5 percent longer. The planet is 5 percent farther from its parent star Kepler-452 than Earth is from the Sun. Kepler-452 is 6 billion years old, 1.5 billion years older than our sun, has the same temperature, and is 20 percent brighter and has a diameter 10 percent larger. The Kepler-452 system is located 1,400 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus. They also said that the planet is likely to have lots of clouds and possibly active volcanoes They also said that it receives about 10% more energy than the earth does because of the proximity and age of the nearby star, I think this would mean it would have a little bit of a higher temperature Also since it is 6 billion years old there is way more time than we have had on Earth for life to have developed given the chance For clarity, Kepler-452 is the star, and Kepler-452b is the planet Its the only planet we found that seems habitable AND orbits around a star just like our sun (there are different types of sun). All of the above just shows that...its so much like us. Its still so far away tho.
