THE WEEK11y
Can Kepler's hunt for another Earth be salvaged?
The mission of NASA's Kepler spacecraft is in ... Losing Kepler would be a tremendous setback. Kepler, launched in 2009, has identified 130 planets and 2,740 other possible planets, many of ...
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NASA’s ‘most prolific planet hunter so far’ — the story of the Kepler Space Telescope
In Hidden in the Heavens, astrophysicist Jason Steffen — who joined the mission a year before it launched in 2009 — relates the story of Kepler and its surprising discoveries. Kepler detected ...
Opinion
Commentary: New telescope may answer our oldest questions
The planet 51 Pegasi b is a long way from Prior Lake, 48 light years (several billion miles) to be exact. It orbits a fifth magnitude star, similar to our Sun, in the constellation Pegasus. It was ...
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Image from NASA's Kepler Spacecraft Showing Members of the Pleiades Star Cluster (IMAGE)
This image from NASA's Kepler spacecraft shows members of the Pleiades star cluster taken during Campaign 4 of the K2 Mission. The cluster stretches across two of the 42 charge-coupled devices ...
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Jeffrey Smith
Dr. Smith now develops data processing and planet detection algorithms for the Kepler and TESS Mission. Launched in March 2009, the Kepler Spacecraft has found well over 4000 potential planets and the ...
Business Insider India6y
NASA's biggest-ever hunt for alien planets is finally underway - and the agency expects to discover 'strange, fantastic worlds'
Kepler launched in March 2009 and stared at a small ... yet it will be an eminently more powerful mission. If Kepler's search area was like a shotgun blast, then that of TESS is an exploding ...