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Bookmark or Share- Kepler / K2 - NASA ScienceThe 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 stars outside our solar system. During nine years in deep space Kepler, and its second act, the extended mission dubbed K2, showed our galaxy contains billions of hidden "exoplanets," many ...
- Kepler | Discoveries & Facts | BritannicaDave Dooling. Kepler, U.S. satellite that detected extrasolar planets. During its missions it discovered 2,662 extrasolar planets, about two-thirds of all planets then known. Kepler discovered between 2 and 12 planets that are roughly Earth-size within their stars’ habitable zones.
- Kepler - Universe Missions - NASA Jet Propulsion LaboratoryKepler was a space telescope designed to survey a portion of the Milky Way galaxy in search of exoplanets, which are planets outside our solar system. Using data from the Kepler mission and the extended K2 mission, scientists have identified more than 2,800 candidate exoplanets and have confirmed more than 2,600 of these as bona fide planets.
- NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to EarthNASA. Scientists using data from NASA’s Kepler mission have confirmed the first near-Earth-size planet orbiting in the habitable zone of a sun-like star. The habitable zone is the region around a star where temperatures are just right for water to exist in its liquid form.
- Kepler space telescope - WikipediaThe 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.
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