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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Kepler Closes Eyes After A Decade Of Discovery
Since its launch in March 2009, the Kepler Space Telescope has ... targets for the James Webb Space Telescope when it comes online. This combination of discovery and analysis by the two ...
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NASA’s Kepler telescope delivers new planetary discovery from the grave
A new study by an international team of astrophysicists, led by the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics has presented the amazing new discovery of a near-identical ... data obtained in 2016 by NASA's ...
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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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Kepler telescope glimpses a free-floating planet population
Tantalising evidence has been uncovered for a mysterious population of ‘free-floating’ planets which may be alone in deep space, unbound to any host star. During this two-month campaign, Kepler ...
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James Webb Space Telescope Reveals Phenomena Behind the Deaths of Mysterious “Disintegrating Planets”
New insights into the extreme conditions behind "disintegrating planets" reveals how they are consumed by the heat of their ...
Hubble Discovers “Blue Lurker” Spinning So Fast, It’s Breaking Astronomers’ Models
A Triple Star System Yields an Unusual Surviving Star Unlike our Sun, which exists alone, at least half of the stars in our ...
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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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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 ...
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Are planets shrinking in size? This is what Kepler Space Telescope data has revealed
Scientists, utilizing data from NASA's retired Kepler Space Telescope, have made a groundbreaking study to unravel the perplexing phenomenon of certain exoplanets diminishing in size. More than ...