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Kepler telescope nasa11/16/2023 ![]() ![]() “It has revolutionized our understanding of our place in the cosmos,” Hertz said. NASA’s Kepler space telescope detected the unfurling light of SN 2018oh, as it has been labeled. The $700 million mission even helped to uncover last year a solar system with eight planets, just like ours. By measuring exoplanets’ sizes (diameters) and masses (weights), we can see compositions ranging from very rocky (like Earth and Venus) to very gas-rich (like Jupiter and Saturn). But Kepler’s overall planet census showed that 20 to 50 percent of the stars visible in the night sky could have planets like ours in the habitable zone for life, he said. We know from NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope that there are more planets than stars in the galaxy. The timeline series includes a compilation of artists concepts depicting milestones from the Kepler mission-NASAs first mission capable of detecting Earth-size planets around sun-like stars. NASA’s astrophysics director Paul Hertz estimated that anywhere from two to a dozen of the planets discovered by Kepler are rocky and Earth-sized in the so-called Goldilocks zone. READ MORE: Astronomers claim they discovered first moon outside our solar system But the biggest surprise was yet to come. It also unveiled incredible super Earths: planets bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune. Kepler, with a new lease on life, was given a new mission as K2. It showed us rocky worlds the size of Earth that, like Earth, might harbor life. Keplers high sensitivity to both small and large planets enabled the discovery of the exoplanets, named Kepler 4b, 5b, 6b, 7b and 8b. Kepler discovered 2,681 planets outside our solar system and even more potential candidates. NASAs Kepler space telescope, designed to find Earth-size planets in the habitable zone of sun-like stars, has discovered its first five new exoplanets, or planets beyond our solar system. “Kepler opened the gate for mankind’s exploration of the cosmos,” said retired NASA scientist William Borucki, who led the original Kepler science team. How NASA cant even get people or cargo to the ISS (250 km above the Earth) - how are they suppossed to get fuel to Kepler - which will eventually be 10s. ![]()
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