Dr. Bill Borucki, principal investigator of the Kepler mission, will describe how the Kepler telescope is returning data on possible life in our galaxy by determining the number of terrestrial planets in a habitable zone.

Launched on March 6, 2009, and operated by LASP, Kepler is now monitoring the brightness of 150,000 solar-like stars to determine the planet radius, orbital distance and location. This lecture will also give you insight into several new planets discovered with the data obtained during the first 43 days of Kepler’s mission.