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Commentary: New telescope may answer our oldest questions
The planet 51 Pegasi b is a long way from Prior Lake, 48 light years (several billion miles) to be exact. It orbits a fifth magnitude star, similar to our Sun, in the constellation Pegasus. It was ...
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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 ...
Even more planets may be hiding in Kepler's fields
Kepler was one of the most successful exoplanet-hunting missions so far. It discovered 2,600 confirmed exoplanets—almost half ...
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End of an Era: Kepler's Retirement and TESS's Launch
The iconic Kepler Space Telescope has retired, but the quest for new worlds continues! In this video, we dive into Kepler’s groundbreaking discoveries and the exciting prospects of TESS ...
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Life probably exists beyond Earth. So how do we find it?
Today we have confirmed about 4,000 exoplanets. The majority were discovered by the Kepler space telescope, launched in 2009. Kepler’s mission was to see how many planets it could find orbiting ...
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An ancient 3-star system give this 'blue lurker' a turbo boost, Hubble Space Telescope reveals
Previous observations led by astronomer Emily Leiner using NASA's retired Kepler space telescope had revealed that all of M67's 500 stellar residents are about four billion years old, save for a ...
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NASA's Hubble tracks down a 'blue lurker' among stars
The star's high spin rate was discovered with NASA's retired Kepler space telescope. While normal Sun-like stars typically take about 30 days to complete one rotation, the lurker takes only four days.
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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 ...
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NASA's new SPHEREx space telescope to launch in February — it can do what the JWST can't
"We are literally mapping the entire celestial sky in 102 infrared colors for the first time in humanity's history." ...
Physics World1mon
Sun-like stars produce ‘superflares’ about once a century
The researchers chose the second option. Using a new method they developed, they analysed Kepler space telescope data on the fluctuations of more than 56,000 Sun-like stars during the period between ...
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The Evolution Of The Telescope, From Galileo To Hubble And Beyond
T he telescope began as a relatively simple device, born out of optical experimentation. It combined a series of lenses and mirrors to collect and magnify light, allowing the user to see far away ...
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Hubble tracks down a 'blue lurker' among stars
The star's high spin rate was discovered with NASA's retired Kepler space telescope. While normal sun-like stars typically take about 30 days to complete one rotation, the lurker takes only four days.