The Kepler spacecraft is in the initial stages of its mission to examine our region of the Milky Way in order to discover potentially habitable, Earth-like planets. n This artist’s animation illustrates how the dust cover on NASA’s Kepler telescope was ejected. Engineers sent a command up...
While ground-based observatories, and even some spacetelescopes, such as Spitzer and Hubble, can find Jupiter-sized extrasolarplanets, Kepler is the first telescope aimed at detecting alien worlds closerto the size of our own home planet.
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 that might resemble Earth. The observatory was in commission for just under nine years, from its launch in March 2009 to its decommission o...
Researchers studying the Kepler data have caught three new and distant supernovae, and the dataset includes measurements taken before the violent explosions even happened. Known for its planet-hunting prowess and its unceasing gaze, the Kepler space telescope’s exquisitely precise and frequent observat...
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We report on the proper motions of Balmer-dominated filaments in Kepler's supernova remnant using high resolution images obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope at two epochs separated by about 10 years. We use the improved proper motion measurements and revised values of shock velocities to ...
An artist's illustration of the extrasolar planets discovered around the star Kepler 11 by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope. (Image credit: Nature) The new discovery of six alien planets orbiting a sunlike star may be only a small part of the data released today (Feb. 2) from NASA's ...
The Kepler space telescope is discovering thousands of new planet candidates. However, a follow up program is needed in order to reject false candidates and to fully characterize the bona-fide exoplanets. Our main aims are: 1./ Detect and analyze close companions inside the typical Kepler PSF ...
When a planet whose orbit is oriented in space such that it periodically passes between its star and a telescope, it transits the star and causes a drop in the brightness of the star. Transit observations reveal the sizes of extrasolar planets as well as their orbital periods. Radial velocity...
WASHINGTON — In another step toward finding Earth-like planets that may hold life, NASA said Monday the Kepler space telescope has confirmed its first-ever planet in a habitable zone outside our solar system. Article content Article content ...