And here's an interview with the principal investigator. Scorecard so far:
- 155,000 stars studied
- 1,235 candidate planets
- 293 are Neptune-size
- 288 are super-Earth-size (>2X)
- 165 candidates are the size of Jupiter
- 68 are Earth-size
- 54 of the Earth-size planets are within the habitable zone
- 170 multiple planetary candidate systems
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