Even more planets may be hiding in Kepler's fields
Kepler was one of the most successful exoplanet-hunting missions so far. It discovered 2,600 confirmed exoplanets—almost half of the total—in its almost 10 years of operation. However, most data ...
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Can Kepler's hunt for another Earth be salvaged?
The mission of NASA's Kepler spacecraft is in peril. The space agency says a malfunction has disabled a reaction wheel that keeps Kepler's telescope pointed precisely at far-away planets, a glitch ...
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Column: IS IT REALLY SO? – Johannes Kepler: The Founder of Modern Astronomy
Learn about the life and scientific contributions of Johannes Kepler, the 17th-century astronomer known for his laws of ...
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NASA’s ‘most prolific planet hunter so far’ — the story of the Kepler Space Telescope
That spacecraft, the Kepler Space Telescope, remains humanity’s most prolific planet hunter so far, having spied thousands of distant planets and many more candidate ones. In Hidden in the ...
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Webb Telescope spots 'fluffy' new planet in Kepler-51 system
The Webb Telescope has helped discover a fourth planet in the Kepler-51 system, which is known for its "fluffy" low-density planets. This discovery changes our current understanding of this system.
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NASA’s Kepler telescope delivers new planetary discovery from the grave
The exoplanet, K2-2016-BLG-0005Lb, is almost identical to Jupiter in terms of its mass and its distance from its sun was discovered using data obtained in 2016 by NASA's Kepler space telescope. The ...
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Two Types of Telescopes
Kepler's advance created a new challenge, however. Because his telescope offered a much greater field of view, astronomers had plenty of room to improve magnification. One way to do that ...
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Kepler telescope glimpses a free-floating planet population
This meant that new data reduction techniques had to be developed to look for signals within the Kepler dataset. Dr McDonald said: “These signals are extremely difficult to find. Our observations ...
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8 of the world's coolest telescopes that are changing the way that we look at the universe
The Kepler Space telescope was built to hunt the universe for planets, with the hopes of finding other Earth-like worlds where alien life might exist. The telescope searches for the faint dimming ...