Kepler 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 Exoplanet Mission | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Kepler Exoplanet Mission. Kepler was a space telescope designed to survey a portion of the Milky Way galaxy in search of exoplanets, which are planets outside ...
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 Kepler space telescope's original mission was to observe one patch of the sky containing roughly 150,000 main sequence stars — stars like ...
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 Mission Data Resources in the Exoplanet Archive
The Kepler Data Product Overview page was created to provide a single location with links to all products and their documentation. There are ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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!
Johannes Kepler's Invention - The Keplerian Telescope
This telescope was different from all others because if used convex eyepiece lens that enabled viewers to see much larger field of view and gave better eye ...
Kepler Telescope Found New Planets Better Than Earth - YouTube
Kepler Telescope Found New Planets Better Than Earth ▻ Subscribe: https://goo.gl/r5jd1F The Kepler Telescope was built for one purpose; ...
How Does the Kepler Telescope Work? | PBS LearningMedia
Learn about NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, which uses the transit method to search for exoplanets, in this video from NOVA: Alien Planets ...
NASA's Planet-Hunting Kepler Telescope Explained (Infographic)
Kepler's planet search is conducted in a narrow wedge-shaped volume of space that stretches out ahead of us as we orbit the galaxy. Stars in the ...
Farewell, Kepler - The Planetary Society
NASA's groundbreaking Kepler space telescope mission, which revolutionized our understanding of planets orbiting other stars, has come to an end.
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 ...
A telescope's last view | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Over half were discovered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, a resilient observatory that far outlasted its original planned mission. Over ...