Nature19 天
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 prolific planet hunter so far, having spied thousands of distant planets and many more candidate ones. In Hidden in the ...
University of Manchester3 年
Kepler telescope glimpses a free-floating planet population
This meant that new data reduction techniques had to be developed to look for signals within the Kepler dataset. Dr McDonald said: “These signals are extremely difficult to find. Our observations ...
JSTOR Daily7 年
Kepler Eclipsing Binary Stars. V. Identification of 31 Candidate Eclipsing Binaries in the ...
AbstractOver 2500 eclipsing binaries were identified and characterized from the ultraprecise photometric data provided by the Kepler space telescope. Kepler is now beginning its second mission, K2, ...
University of Manchester1 年
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 space telescope. The ...
来自MSN3 个月
The Evolution Of The Telescope, From Galileo To Hubble And Beyond
Despite those advancements, ancient peoples were operating from ... Fortunately, it's not our only orbital telescope. The Kepler Space Telescope, named for astronomer Johannes Kepler, was NASA's ...
BGR6 年
This is the Kepler space telescope’s last image after nearly a decade of work
It’s now been a few months since the Kepler space telescope bit the dust, but the work it did will still have an impact for a long time to come. In a new post, NASA reveals the telescope’s ...
Mashable4 年
NASA's Kepler Space Telescope is dead. Long live Kepler.
Since that time, NASA changed the craft's mission to adjust to the telescope's new normal, calling the updated mission K2. And even though the mission is at an end, that doesn't mean Kepler's ...
Phys.org26 天
Even more planets may be hiding in Kepler's fields
As with many space telescope missions, Kepler's dataset is open to the public. NASA maintains a database with the raw data collected during the space telescope's observations, and researchers are ...
Asian News International2 天
NASA says goodbye to Kepler Space Telescope
New Delhi, Nov 01 (ANI): After over-working, the Kepler Space Telescope is finally taking its final nap. The spacecraft functioned more number of years than its fuel levels permitted and helped ...
Business Insider8 年
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 ...