Kepler contains a special telescope that will stare at 100000 stars in the Cygnus-Lyra region of the Milky Way for more than three years as it trails Earth's orbit around the Sun. ... NASA's Kepler seeks another Earth among the stars The first spacecraft dedicated to finding potentially habi...
The first spacecraft dedicated to finding potentially habitable planets beyond our solar system is poised to blast off from Cape Canaveral tonight on a three-year mission to probe 150000 stars in the most sweeping hunt for Earthlike ... NASA telescope will hunt for Earth-like planets CAP...
Once in orbit, Kepler will be aimed at a star-rich swath of sky between the constellations Cygnus and Lyra in our own Milky Way galaxy. The telescope has two main tasks on its three-year mission: Stare at the stars and stay still. Topics: Hunting, Kepler ... NASA is getting ready to launch the Kep...