This is a very cool image.  In fact, it’s hard to describe in mere words how cool this picture really is.  What you’re looking at is the first image beamed down from the Kepler space telescope, launched into orbit around the Sun (trailing Earth’s orbit) just over a month ago.  You can just imagine standing on the bridge of some futuristic spaceship and looking out onto such a scene as this.  But the really cool thing about this image is that in all probability, the first ever Earth-like planet we discover outside our own Solar System is somewhere within this picture.

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