Fact Sheet
Staring Into Space
The Kepler spacecraft is staring at a region of space between two of the brightest stars in the summer sky, Vega and Deneb. The orbiting telescope is monitoring 100,000 stars for evidence of Earth-like planets orbiting Sun-like stars. Such planets are considered the most likely home for Earth-like life. Kepler's search area, which is near the edge of the glowing band of the Milky Way, is denoted by the white boxes. [Carter Roberts/NASA]
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