Kepler Space Telescope
The Kepler space telescope was NASA's first planet-hunting mission, assigned to search a portion of the Milky Way galaxy for Earth-sized planets orbiting ...
Kepler space telescope - Wikipedia
The Kepler space telescope is a defunct space telescope launched by NASA in 2009 to discover Earth-sized planets orbiting other stars. ... Named after astronomer ...
Kepler / K2 In Depth - NASA Science
Hubble Space Telescope · International Space Station · OSIRIS-REx. Humans in ... 30, 2018, after nine years in deep space collecting data, NASA announced that ...
Kepler Space Telescope: The Original Exoplanet Hunter
During its 9-year mission, NASA's Kepler space telescope discovered over 2300 planets orbiting stars other than our sun.
Characteristics of the Kepler space telescope
The primary instrument aboard Kepler is the focal plane array consisting of 21 science and 4 Fine Guidance Sensor CCD modules. Field flattener lenses on each ...
Kepler/K2 | Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
The Telescope and the Science ... The Kepler space telescope's original mission was to observe one patch of the sky containing roughly 150,000 ...
Legacy of NASA's Kepler Space Telescope: More Planets Than Stars
After 9 years in space collecting data that revealed our night sky to be filled with trillions of hidden planets, NASA is ending the Kepler ...
Kepler, NASA's planet-hunting space telescope, is dead - Science
NASA announced today that after 9 years in space, the Kepler planet hunter has run out of fuel and will be switched off in its current safe orbit far from ...
List of exoplanets discovered by the Kepler space telescope
As of June 16 2023, the Kepler space telescope and its follow-up observations have detected 2,778 planets, including hot Jupiters, super-Earths, circumbinary ...
Planet Hunting with the Kepler Space Telescope
Thanks to the Kepler Space Telescope, we now know the answer to a longstanding question in astronomy: how common are planetary systems ...
NASA's Kepler mission has come to an end - CNN
NASA's Kepler Space Telescope has run out of fuel, and its mission has come to an end 94 million miles from Earth, the agency announced Tuesday.
The Legacy of NASA's Kepler Space Telescope - YouTube
After nine years spent in deep space collecting data that revealed our night sky to be filled with trillions of hidden planets, more planets ...
NASA's Planet-Hunting Kepler Telescope Explained (Infographic)
The mission of NASA's Kepler Space Telescope is to identify and characterize Earth-size planets in the habitable zones of nearby stars.
Meet Scientists From The Kepler Space Telescope Mission
Drs. Sarah Ballard, Savita Mathur, and Lucianne Walkowicz have all kept busy in the astronomy and science communication fields!
KEPLER | MAST - Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes
The Kepler spacecraft was launched into an earth trailing orbit and stared at a 100 sq. degree patch of sky near Cygnus in order to measure the brightness ...
Kepler | Discoveries & Facts | Britannica
Kepler, U.S. satellite that detected extrasolar planets. During its missions it discovered 2662 extrasolar planets, about two-thirds of all planets then ...
Kepler Space Telescope - The New York Times
A new analysis of data from NASA's Kepler spacecraft increases the number of habitable exoplanets thought to exist in this galaxy.
A history of the Kepler space telescope - BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Launched on 6 March 2009, NASA's first planet-hunting space observatory was placed into an 'Earth-trailing' orbit around the Sun, ready to focus ...
Kepler Mission Data Resources in the Exoplanet Archive
The Kepler Mission, a NASA Discovery mission launched on March 6, 2009, was the first space mission dedicated to the search for Earth-sized and ...
A telescope's last view | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
In 2009, NASA launched the Kepler telescope into space, where it followed the Earth's orbit and continuously monitored millions of stars in a ...