Just for clarification, the Kepler mission has discovered 219 new planet candidates, 10 of which are approximately Earth-size and in their stars' habitable zones.
There's no guarantee that any of these planets is habitable at all, even for microscopic life, let alone inhabited (even by microscopic life).
And these are also "candidates", not confirmed discoveries. The Kepler mission never provided a huge amount of information about them, and the spacecraft is no longer functioning so we won't get more data from it. Ground-based observatories will do the confirming, but that is a slow process.
The new Telescopes coming fast on the horizon including the James Webb Telescope that will be a million miles out will blow everyone minds on what they learn and the amount of it.
Here is a link that talks about seven of the big ones including a re-purposed Spy satellite.
I wonder if the hellfire and brimstone preacher at our cousin's holly roller church in W. Virginia will preach against the evil NASA astronomers this coming Sunday.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/20/2017 09:02PM by Lethbridge Reprobate.