Kepler Mission space telescope, artwork. NASA's Kepler Mission is designed to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars. Kepler's di
Kepler Mission space telescope, artwork. NASA's Kepler Mission is designed to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars. Kepler's diameter photometer will scan 100,000 stars in the Milky Way for evidence of Earth-sized terrestrial planets that transit the star's path. The mission was launched in March 2009, and will orbit the Sun for at least years. The mission is named in honour of German astronomer Johannes Kepler. As of February 2011, over 1000 candidate planets have been discovered.
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