Tune In for NASA's Major Announcement About The Kepler Space Telescope Discovery

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NASA is set to announce a major discovery by the Kepler Space Telescope at Noon EDT, and you can watch it live here.

NASA will announce a major discovery by the Kepler Space Telescope at noon EDT, and you can watch it live below.

"Today, and thousands of discoveries later, astronomers are on the cusp of finding something people have dreamed about for thousands of years – another Earth," NASA teased in a statement.

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The first exoplanet orbiting another star like our sun was discovered in 1995. Exoplanets, especially small Earth-size worlds, belonged within the realm of science fiction just 21 years ago. Today, and thousands of discoveries later, astronomers are on the cusp of finding something people have dreamed about for thousands of years—another Earth.

Launched in March 2009, Kepler is the first NASA mission to detect Earth-size planets orbiting distant stars in or near the habitable zone—the range of distance from a star in which the surface temperature of an orbiting planet might sustain liquid water. The telescope has since confirmed more than 1,000 planets and more than 3,000 planet candidates spanning a wide range of sizes and orbital distances, including those in the habitable zone.





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SOURCE  NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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