Planetary Peekaboo

Ready to sample some otherworldly dispatches, residents packed in the theater in Cyrano's Off-Center Playhouse of Anchorage one bright June evening. Circling the sun spying on planets orbiting distant stars, messages were beamed to Earth by NASA's Keplar Spacecraft.The planetary candidates now tops 3,000 as the Keplar craft is delivering results at a really fast rate. Keplar also has found Earth sized planets and exoplanets with Earthlike orbits. Still eluding mission scientists is an orb that fits both criteria.

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