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Gallery: Kepler Space Telescope

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Kepler Space Telescope Image 1

The goal of this probe, which was launched in March, is to find planets much like our own in distant star systems--Earth-size bodies orbiting their stars in the sweet spot where the temperature is appropriate to support, just maybe, alien life.

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Kepler Space Telescope Image 2

A scientist monitors the telescope's readings, which show observations of some 100,000 stars 600 to 3,000 light years away.

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