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From bbc.co.uk…
An unmanned Nasa mission to search the sky for Earth-like planets with the potential to host life has launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida.
The Kepler telescope will orbit the Sun to watch a patch of space thought to contain about 100,000 stars like ours.
It will look for the slight dimming of light from these “suns” as planets pass between them and the spacecraft.
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