The New York Times has a nice article on the new Earth-like planets Kepler discovered, 2 Good Places to Live, 1,200 Light-Years Away. But it's accompanied by an amazing interactive graphic, Kepler’s Tally of Planets.
"NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered more than 100 confirmed planets orbiting distant stars. Planets with a known size and orbit are shown below, including five planets orbiting Kepler 62, announced this week."
It's amazing, check it out, though I had some problems with it in Safari, it worked well in Chrome.
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