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.
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 French astronomers earlier this year confirmed the...
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...
Astronomy and Space Quiz AfterGalileobuilt atelescopein 1609 and announced hitherto-unknown objects in the heavens (e.g.,moonsrevolving aroundJupiter) and imperfections of the lunar surface, he sent Kepler his account inSiderius Nuncius(1610;The Sidereal Messenger). Kepler responded with three importa...
Related:NASA's planet-hunting Kepler space telescope is done. What will happen to it? Though inactive, Kepler will continue in its Earth-trailing orbit around the sun, passing through Earth's neighborhood (at a safe distance) in 2060 and again in 2117. ...
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...
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 ...
S.M. was supported by NASA through the NASA Hubble Fellowship grant #HST-HF2-51465 awarded by the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., for NASA, under contract NAS5-26555. S.M. was also supported by the ...
2. (Astronomy) any instrument, such as a radio telescope, for collecting, focusing, and detecting electromagnetic radiation from space vb 3. to crush together or be crushed together, as in a collision: the front of the car was telescoped by the impact. 4. to fit together like a set of...