Friday, April 8, 2011

Msnbc Techonology


Kepler offers 'treasure trove' of star information

The planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft has observed brightness oscillations in more than 500 sunlike stars. The white-line grids represent the field of view on the sky of the Kepler detectors.NASA's planet-hunting Kepler space observatory has turned out to be a jack-of-all-trades — a multipurpose spacecraft that has gone beyond its alien world mandate to tackle some key star mysteries.

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