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Liffrea
01-05-2010, 09:46 AM
"The Kepler observations will tell us whether there are many stars with planets that could harbor life, or whether we might be alone in our galaxy."

William Borucki of NASA's Ames Research Center

NASA's Kepler space telescope, designed to find Earth-size planets in the habitable zone of sun-like stars, has discovered its first five new planets beyond our solar system.

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2010/01/-search-for-earths-twin-turbo-charged-kepler-space-observatory-pinpoints-5-new-exo-planets.html