What did KEPLER discover?

Today at a press conference that will be broadcast live on NASA channel and UStreamu presentation of the perennial quest for space telescope Kepler earth like planets in our galaxy. It will be possible and web-chat with Nick Gautier of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the press conference will be attended several others related to the project, and Kepler is expected to impart something of an important enough.

Kepler, launched 2009th highly specialized space telescope searching Earth-like planets in the so-called habitable zone around its parent star, in order to concentrate the search for possible extraterrestrial life, but also to determine the possible destinations of future space colonization. Currently marked as possible candidates even 2,700 planets, of which confirmed other observations 105. Even two years ago, NASA has had a major conference on the occasion of finding the first two planets Earth's size by this device. In fact, unlike the planetary giants the size of Jupiter and similar, smaller planets the size of Earth, orbiting the host star was before Kepler almost impossible to detect.