Kepler First Light

[Luke]

A first-light image from the new Kepler space telescope - hopefully it will find another Earth, ideally a parallel one where Liverpool win the Premiership!

Kepler | About | First light for Kepler photometer

"NASA's Kepler mission has taken its first images of the star-rich sky where it will soon begin hunting for planets like Earth.

"Kepler was designed to hunt for planets like Earth. The mission will spend the next three-and-a-half years staring at the same stars, looking for periodic dips in brightness. Such dips occur when planets cross in front of their stars from our point of view in the galaxy, partially blocking the starlight."

Cheers,

Luke