Tuesday, April 21, 2009

FIRST LIGHT... Last Thursday, NASA released this image that the Kepler spacecraft took of the vast starfield (located in the Cygnus-Lyra region of our Milky Way galaxy) that it will stare at for the next 3 years to detect Earth-like planets orbiting other star systems. Pretty cool. I wonder how many of the rocky worlds that Kepler discovers will be like Geonosis? Or Hoth? Or Mustafar? Just thought I'd put Star Wars references in here.

An image by the KEPLER spacecraft of the Cygnus-Lyra starfield, in our Milky Way galaxy.
NASA / Ames / JPL - Caltech

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