Kepler Telescope
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NASA
More Planets than Stars: Kepler’s Legacy
The Kepler mission enabled the discovery of thousands of exoplanets, revealing a deep truth about our place in the cosmos: there are more planets than stars in the Milky Way galaxy. The road to this fundamental change in our understanding of the universe, however, required almost 20 years of persistence before the mission became a reality with its selection in 2001. The Kepler…
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NASA
Earth-Size, Habitable Zone Planet Found Hidden in Early NASA Kepler Data
Editor’s note: This release has been updated to add language about how this discovery relates to the field of astrobiology. A team of transatlantic scientists, using reanalyzed data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope, has discovered an Earth-size exoplanet orbiting in its star’s habitable zone, the area around a star where a rocky planet could support liquid water. Scientists discovered this planet, called Kepler-1649c,…
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