Kepler begins its search for Earth-like planets

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Discussion thread for the blog entry "Kepler begins its search for Earth-like planets" by AndromedasWake.

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[Pulsar]

And today, ESA launched Herschel and Planck. Herschel is a 3.5 meter far-infrared telescope, the biggest space telescope thus far. Planck will observe the cosmic microwave background, carrying on from WMAP. Exciting times!