Nature11d
NASA’s ‘most prolific planet hunter so far’ — the story of the Kepler Space Telescope
Kepler detected planets by identifying the dimming ... One question was whether to sharpen the telescope’s focus after the first images seemed slightly blurry. It was designed to be adjusted ...
ExtremeTech4y
Stunningly Earth-Like Planet Found Hiding in Kepler Telescope Data
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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.
Phys.org18d
Even more planets may be hiding in Kepler's fields
As with many space telescope missions ... the six years since the end of Kepler's primary mission to help facilitate crunching large sets of data to look for planets around other stars.
University of Manchester3y
Kepler telescope glimpses a free-floating planet population
Tantalising evidence has been uncovered for a mysterious population of ‘free-floating’ planets ... the Kepler dataset. Dr McDonald said: “These signals are extremely difficult to find. Our ...
University of Manchester1y
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 ... telescope. Roman ...
Business Insider India5y
Astronomers have discovered a potentially habitable world just 31 light-years away, thanks to NASA's planet-hunting telescope
The Kepler telescope pioneered the technique, though it's been refined by TESS. The promising planet is in its star's "habitable zone," the range of distances in which a rocky world could have the ...