  In March 2009, NASA will launch the Kepler satellite -- a mission designed to
discover habitable Earth-like planets around distant Sun-like stars. The method
that Kepler will use to detect distant worlds will only reveal the size of the
planet relative to the size of the host star, so part of the mission is devoted
to characterizing other suns using asteroseismology. In this proceedings, I
give a broad overview of the Kepler mission and the data that it will produce,
with a special emphasis on how it could improve our understanding of solar and
stellar dynamos. I conclude with an update on the development of a stellar
modeling pipeline for interpreting asteroseismic observations.
