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US telescope 'Kepler' starts search for second Earth

An undated handout provided by US space agency NASA on 07 March 2009 shows the target area of the milky way the Kepler space mission covers. The telescope is on the journey to examine more than 100,000 sun-like stars and their orbiting planets that show similarities with the Earth. Estimations made by astronomists state that the Milky Way Galaxy contains of 100 billion stars the least. One-ton-heavy telescope Kepler started its large-scale search for a second Earth on 06 March 2009 local time on a Delta II rocket from Cape Canaveral, United States. The mission is scheduled to take three years. EPA/NASA EDITORIAL USE ONLY

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