Kepler Telescope Ready to Launch

On Thursday, mission commanders announced that NASA's Kepler Space Telescope mission was primed and ready for launch, on the 5th of March, 2009. It took a lot of effort to get here, but now the most recent tool of scouting the Universe for Earth-like, inhabitable planets is ready for dep... [ read more >> ]

An estimative depiction of Kepler's range, as opposed to the actual size of the Milky Way

An artist's depiction of Kepler in orbit

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Image credits: kepler.nasa

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An artist's depiction of Kepler in orbit