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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 ... 2009 — relates the story of Kepler and its surprising discoveries. Kepler detected planets by identifying the dimming ...
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 ...
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NASA’s Kepler telescope delivers new planetary discovery from the grave
A new study by an international team of astrophysicists, led by the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics has presented the amazing new discovery of a near-identical ... data obtained in 2016 by NASA's ...
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Amateur scientists just found a new planet, and it might even be habitable
NASA’s Kepler space telescope is dead ... that it sent back during its life is still being sifted through, and new discoveries are just waiting to be made. A timely reminder of that fact ...
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End of an Era: Kepler's Retirement and TESS's Launch
The iconic Kepler Space Telescope has retired, but the quest for new worlds continues! In this video, we dive into Kepler’s groundbreaking discoveries and the exciting prospects of TESS ...
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Kepler telescope glimpses a free-floating planet population
Tantalising evidence has been uncovered for a mysterious population of ‘free-floating’ planets which may be alone in deep space, unbound to any host star. During this two-month campaign, Kepler ...
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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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Astronomers discovered a rare kind of star that actually looks like a pumpkin
They discovered these stars with the Kepler and Swift space telescopes. Video courtesy of NASA Follow Tech Insider: On Facebook More from Tech Astronomers have discovered a rare type of star that ...
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"It's Earth 2.0" What we know about new planet Kepler-452b
Whether you see the discovery as one of the most exciting ... after analysing four years’ worth of data from Nasa's Kepler telescope. The Kepler telescope detects tiny dips in the brightness ...
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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 ...