Kepler space telescope

Frame from the lovely video "4,000 Exoplanets", showing when and where exoplanets have been found on the sky, using music and colors to represent various features of the planets. Credit: System Sounds
4000 exoplanets, in sight and sound
Phil Plait
Jul 11, 2019
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Kepler 107c: A massive collision leaves behind a superdense exoplanet
Phil Plait
Feb 13, 2019
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Dramatic artwork depecting the aftermath of the collision of two planets. Credit: Dana Berry/SwRI
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Kepler's final glimpse of the galaxy kind of looks like space Tetris
Elizabeth Rayne
Feb 10, 2019
Kepler's final image
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Kepler is dead. Now what?
Elizabeth Rayne
Nov 1, 2018
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NASA image of Kepler
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Good news and bad news: Hubble and Chandra back on duty, Kepler and Dawn may be at the ends of their missions
Phil Plait
Oct 29, 2018
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Four great space missions: Hubble (top left), Chandra (top right), Kepler (bottom left), and Dawn (bottom right). Credit (respectively): NASA, NASA/CXC/NGST, NASA, NASA/JPL-Caltech
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A (possibly) record-breaking exoplanet found with a ten-year orbit
Phil Plait
Jul 9, 2018
Artwork depicting a system of planets around a red dwarf star. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser/N. Risinger (skysurvey.org)
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Looking for other Earths: Are we being too picky?
Phil Plait
Jun 5, 2018
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Artwork depicting a habitable exomoon orbiting a gas giant around another star. Credit: NASA / GSFC / Jay Friedlander and Britt Griswold
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Everything you need to know about TESS, NASA's new planet-finding space observatory
Phil Plait
Apr 16, 2018
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Artwork of the TESS observatory in orbit. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab
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Exocomets detected orbiting nearby stars. In other words: alien comets!
Phil Plait
Mar 19, 2018
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Artist’s impression of comets orbiting the young star Beta Pictoris. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada
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And Kepler-90i makes eight: Another eight-planet solar system found!
Phil Plait
Dec 15, 2017
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Kepler 90 planets. Credit: NASA/Ames Research Center/Wendy Stenzel
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Have astronomers found evidence for an exomoon? Maaaaaaaybe.
Phil Plait
Jul 28, 2017
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Artwork depicting a gas giant exoplanet with a gas giant exomoon.
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A passel of new planets shows our solar system is very weird, and we don't know why
Phil Plait
Jun 20, 2017
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NASA's Kepler space telescope has found 2 more planets that could support alien life
Trent Moore
Jul 25, 2016
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NASA's Kepler telescope doubles down on the number of known exoplanets
Jeff Spry
May 12, 2016
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Following a near-loss late last week, NASA has revived the Kepler Space Telescope
Trent Moore
Apr 11, 2016
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Pack your things, NASA has discovered the most Earth-like planet yet
Don Kaye
Jul 26, 2015
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