Often times I think to myself, “Is someone, somewhere, gazing into the same night sky
and wondering the same thing?” Here on Earth there are others that share this same
view; this is where the Kepler Space Telescope is going to hopefully answer this
question. Kepler is unlike any other space telescope, in that it does not just point in one
Direction and send a picture back to NASA. What makes this telescope different is that
Kepler is focused on one portion of the night sky for months at a time, taking hundreds
of pictures of the same spot. The main mission of the Kepler telescope is to watch
thousands of stars for a slight dimming of their