Another step forward for Kepler

The amazing Kepler telescope has now produced a scientific result indicating that solar systems like the one we're in -- with most of the main planets in the same plane, which is also aligned with the rotational plane of the parent star's equator -- might be very common.   As they say in the biz, more research is needed.

But I'm impressed. 

Both by the telescope, and the scientists who study the data it's producing.

Alien solar system Kepler-30 looks like our own