Kepler first light

A friend of mine working at NASA just tweeted about the first images from the Kepler space telescope. Orbiting the sun in an earth trailing orbit, the Kepler telescope will be taking constant images with its 95 megapixel CCD camera for the next three and a half years looking for changes in the brightness of stars that signal the presence of an orbiting planet in that system passing between the star and us. This is a cool mission, but I also see the potential to find something new. Science often finds what it is not looking for, and this would be an opportunity to do just that. It would be great if NASA releases the images for outside people to perform their own analysis!. via NASA

Powered by Qumana