Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Recent Space Exploration Reveals Mystery Objects


2009 marked the 400th anniversary of Galileo's telescope and 2010 marks the 400th anniversary of his first published accounts of his telescopic observations of Jupiter's moons.

Fast-forward to 2010, here is contemporary news from the Kepler Telescope. The telescope has discovered 5 planets since it was launched by NASA in March of 2009.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/01/04/science/AP-US-SCI-Space-Mystery.html?_r=1&ref=science

You can track the Kepler Telescope Mission here: http://www.kepler.nasa.gov/