the hunt for distant planets should take a giant leap forward tonight, with NASA’s Kepler space telescope poised for launch aboard a Delta II rocket at Launch Complex 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. once in space, it will scan 100,000 far-off stars in the Cygnus-Lyra region with sensors so powerful that if turned towards earth could detect someone in a small town turning off their porch light
_image: NASA
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