Corot sends first images

FIRST IMAGES: France's Corot planet-finding mission has sent back initial images from its high-precision afocal photometric telescope, intended to identify terrestrial planets in other stars of our galaxy that previous space- and ground-based instruments have been unable to see. The operation, which...

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