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Pasadena, KOMPAS.com - Mission search dense planet-planet that resembles Earth all over the sky to begin. Kepler telescope belonging to the body outer U.S. (NASA) has been activated and send photos sky first.
The image illustrates the broad scope akan highlighted telescopes to search for another planet-planet outside the solar system. Kepler is directed to the Cygnus-Lyra region in one corner of the galaxy Bima Sakti that most stars.

One image depicts the area that contains 4.5 million stars. More than 100,000 of them estimated that surrounded the planet.

"We expect to find hundreds of the planet that encircle stars, and for the first time, we can see the planet-planet Earth seukuran that encircle stars like Sun," said William Borucki, scientists from Ames Research Center in Moffett NASA owned Field, California .

During the 3.5 years served only Kepler select potential targets. Telescopes will be observing the sky and continue to see potential in every flicker of stars is common because the planet pass in front of it. 95 megapixel camera that can detect the changes brought light from stars is very small 20 part permil.

"All things about Kepler already dioptimalisasikan to find seukuran planet Earth," said James Franson, Kepler project manager at the Jet Propulsi Laboratory, Pasadena, California. He said that shooting will be done in stages to be determined that there is a star on the planet Earth that are similar.

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Source: NASA