Kepler, the robot spacecraft named for the sixteenth century astronomer who founded celestial mechanics (though today’s astronomers like to forget he made his living casting horoscopes), has confirmed the previous discovery of a Jupiter-sized giant in its first workout in the black. Still to come: finding new planets, especially habitable Earth-size ones. None are imaged directly, but inferred by the dimming of their star/sun as they pass in front of it.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
Its’ quite the time to find a few suitable planets somewhere, so I hope that this gadget will start plugging at it asap.
Sorry about the double posting, it is that that system gets stuck in an empty screen, and I reload then. Please eliminate the doubles.
Sorry about that. The TypePad system really stinks. I’ve lost several commenters who can’t make it work. Half the time it rejects my i.d. and password. I would like to trash it, but I have nothing to replace it with and the comment spam that comes in without some security takes too long to search and delete.