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Kepler / K2 - NASA Science

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 ...

NASA Retires Kepler Space Telescope, Passes Planet-Hunting Torch

NASA has decided to retire the spacecraft within its current, safe orbit, away from Earth. Kepler leaves a legacy of more than 2,600 planet ...

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.

Kepler, NASA's planet-hunting space telescope, is dead - Science

*Update, 30 October, 4:55 p.m.: NASA announced today that after 9 years in space, the Kepler planet hunter has run out of fuel and will be switched off in ...

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 ...

Kepler space telescope news, articles and features | New Scientist

Kepler finds 219 new exoplanets and 10 are rocky and Earth-like. News Free. Cold case: The unsolved mystery of what lit Kepler's supernova.

NASA telescope reveals 7 new planets orbiting distant star "hotter ...

Astronomers studying data from NASA's retired Kepler space telescope discovered a new system of seven "scorching" planets orbiting a distant star that is ...

The first planet found by the Kepler space telescope is doomed

The first planet ever spotted by the Kepler space telescope is falling into its star. ... Headlines and summaries of the latest Science News ...

Kepler space telescope - latest news, breaking stories and comment

The latest breaking news, comment and features from The Independent.

Kepler Space Telescope: The Original Exoplanet Hunter

NASA's Kepler Space Telescope was an observatory in space dedicated to finding planets outside our solar system, with a particular focus on finding planets ...

NASA Retires Kepler Space Telescope - www.caltech.edu

NASA's planet-hunting Kepler space telescope has run out of fuel needed for further science operations ... News / NASA Retires Kepler Space ...

Kepler Space Telescope - page 6 - latest research news and features

News on kepler space telescope · Astronomers find evidence of a planet with a mass almost 13 times that of Jupiter · Kepler Space Telescope's first exoplanet ...

Kepler | PBS News

NASA explanatory scientists announced Thursday that the Kepler Space Telescope has found an Earth-like planet in our galaxy. Elisa Quintana, exoplanet research ...

Kepler Space Telescope News - SciTechDaily

The Kepler Space Telescope was a NASA space observatory that was launched in 2009 with the primary goal of discovering Earth-size planets orbiting other ...

NASA's Kepler mission has come to an end - CNN

NASA's Kepler Space Telescope has run out of fuel, and its mission ... © 2024 Cable News Network. A Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All ...

NASA Ends Kepler Space Telescope's Science Operations - Sci.News

NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, which spent nine years in deep space collecting data that detected thousands of exoplanets, has run out of ...

The planet-hunting Kepler space telescope is dead - Science News

The Kepler space telescope is officially out of fuel and will hunt planets no more, NASA announced.

So long, Kepler, and thanks for all the planets - The Washington Post

The Kepler Space Telescope, NASA's powerhouse planet hunter, is out of fuel at age 9.

2 Big NASA Space Missions Ended This Week, But Don't Panic

NASA's prolific Kepler Space Telescope has run out of fuel, agency officials announced on Oct. 30, 2018. The planet- ...

NASA's Kepler space telescope ends its planet-hunting mission

Today, the space agency announced that after nearly a decade of staring at the stars, Kepler is out of fuel. Now, the spacecraft will stay in ...


Kepler space telescope

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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 Johannes Kepler, the spacecraft was launched into an Earth-trailing heliocentric orbit. The principal investigator was William J. Borucki.

Telescope

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A telescope is a device used to observe distant objects by their emission, absorption, or reflection of electromagnetic radiation.

Kepler-452b

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Kepler-452b is a super-Earth exoplanet orbiting within the inner edge of the habitable zone of the sun-like star Kepler-452 and is the only planet in the system discovered by the Kepler space telescope.

Refracting telescope

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A refracting telescope is a type of optical telescope that uses a lens as its objective to form an image. The refracting telescope design was originally used in spyglasses and astronomical telescopes but is also used for long-focus camera lenses.

Mars

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Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun. The surface of Mars is orange-red because it is covered in iron(III) oxide dust, giving it the nickname "the Red Planet".

Exoplanet

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An exoplanet or extrasolar planet is a planet outside the Solar System. The first possible evidence of an exoplanet was noted in 1917 but was not then recognized as such. The first confirmation of the detection occurred in 1992. A different planet, first detected in 1988, was confirmed in 2003.