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LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST:By Andrew FollettNASA released raw data from the Kepler Space Telescope of three potentially habitable planets around the star TRAPPIST-1. The new data may even result in the discovery of more planets around the star. “Scientists and enthusiasts around the world are invested in learning everything they can about these Earth-size worlds,” Geert Barentsen, a NASA research scientist who works on the Kepler telescope, said a NASA press statement. One of the potentially inhabitable planets, dubbed TRAPPIST-1E, is very similar in size to Earth and likely has very similar temperatures. NASA announced in May that its Kepler Space Telescope found 1,284 new exoplanets, or planets, outside our solar system.