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TOP STORY | posted:
February 7, 2007 11:36 am EDT |  |
 | The Kepler Mission: The Search for Earth-like
Planets BOULDER, Colorado ? The hunt for Earth-like worlds
orbiting distant suns will get a big boost next year with the liftoff
of NASA?s Kepler mission. That spacecraft?s job is to monitor 100,000
stars in a stellar staring contest intended to detect periodic
decreases in a star?s brightness?a falloff of light due to planets
transiting their parent stars. Read
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