Kepler 22-B

Kepler-22b, a possible super-Earth, was discovered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope & was announced December 5, 2011. The planet was originally discovered on Kepler's third day of science operations in mid-2009. Additional confirmation data was provided by the Spitzer Space Telescope and ground-based observations. It is 600 light years away from Earth, in orbit around the G-type star Kepler-22.