"We started out analyzing 275 candidates of which 149 were validated as real exoplanets. In turn 95 of these planets have proved to be new discoveries," said American PhD student Andrew Mayo at the National Space Institute (DTU Space) at the Technical University of Denmark.

 

"This research has been underway since the first K2 data release in 2014."

 

Mayo is the main author of the work being presented in the Astronomical Journal.

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