Kepler for those who don't know is a space observatory
launched by NASA to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars. The
spacecraft, named after the Renaissance astronomer Johannes Kepler, and was
launched on March 7, 2009.
Designed
to survey a portion of our region of the Milky Way to discover dozens of
Earth-size extrasolar planets in or near the habitable zone and estimate how
many of the billions of stars in our galaxy have such planets.
Data recently
collected from NASA’s Kepler spacecraft along with the W. M. Keck Observatory
shows that statistically twenty percent of Sun-like stars in our galaxy have Earth-sized
planets that could host life.
For more information regarding this great discovery
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Artist impression of the Kepler Spacecraft
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