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/
