Sentences with phrase «kepler is a telescope»

Kepler is a telescope that, unlike the Hubble telescope, is not meant for taking images of specific astronomical objects.

Not exact matches

«We have taken our telescope, and we have counted up how many planets are similar to the Earth in this part of the sky,» Susan Thompson, a Kepler research scientist at the SETI Institute, said during a press conference at NASA Ames Research Center on Monday.

However, Kepler researchers suspect that almost countless Earthlike planets are waiting to be found, because the telescope can «see» only exoplanets that pass in front of their stars.

Thompson said this new Kepler data analysis would be the last for this leg of the telescope's first observations.

The newly discovered exoplanets, or planets outside of the earth's solar system, were found after researchers applied the same AI techniques that help computers recognize images like cats in photos to data gathered from the Kepler space telescope.

What I like the most it does not get in the way of the scientific method or the exploration being done by NASA, CERN, Hubble or Kepler telescopes.

Although a mechanical failure recently put the telescope out of commission (SN: 6/15/13, p. 10), Kepler's census of planets orbiting roughly 170,000 stars is enabling astronomers to predict how common planets...

Though hobbled by age, NASA's Kepler planet - hunting telescope is proving to be an almost inexhaustible engine of discovery.

A far - flung star's extra wink, spotted in data from the Kepler space telescope and further probed by the Hubble Space Telescope, may be the first evidence for an exomoon — a moon orbiting a planet orbiting a distant star.

Don't cry for the crippled Kepler space telescope — it was always meant to be the first word in planetary discovery, not the last.

With the Kepler telescope, we're learning about the properties of planets across the cosmic ocean.

Although Kepler can not peer nearly as far into the cosmos as the Hubble telescope, its view is far more panoramic, as wide as 27 full moons across the sky.

The Kepler team estimates that the telescope will now need about eight years to complete what was originally planned to be a 3.5 - year mission.

And this is just the latest in a series of stunning finds from Kepler, a space telescope designed to search for Earth - size planets orbiting other stars in what is called «the Goldilocks zone.»

A new analysis of data from NASA's planet - hunting Kepler mission suggests one of the telescope's prized finds, Kepler 452 b, might be a statistical mirage

As astronomers presented new planetary measurements and observing techniques at the conference, Kepler engineers in California were strategizing about how to remotely repair one of two broken reaction wheels that precisely point the telescope.

Kepler 452 b was discovered by NASA's Kepler space telescope and announced in 2015.

The new planet's mass and density are not yet known precisely, but a joint effort by the Kepler spacecraft that launched in March and the W. M. Keck telescopes could provide such data for this and other planets.

Astonishingly, this species of planet is the most common in the Milky Way, making up some 77 percent of the planetary quarry snagged by our biggest survey to date, with the Kepler space telescope.

And now, as coinvestigator on NASA's Kepler space telescope, he is close to finding some of them.

If these giant moons around giant planets exist, they might already be present in the available data of NASA's Kepler space telescope, or they could be detectable with the European Space Agency's upcoming PLATO space mission and European Southern Observatory's ground - based European Extremely Large Telescope.

Due to its long orbital period, Kepler 452 b barely met that minimal criterion before the telescope's primary mission ended — but a host of other, more technical tests convinced the Kepler team the planet had a 99 percent chance of being real.

Kepler 10b: Kepler's Calling Card Announced in January 2011, Kepler 10b was the mission's first discovery of a small, rocky planet, proof of the Kepler telescope's planet - hunting prowess.

Although a mechanical failure recently put the telescope out of commission (SN: 6/15/13, p. 10), Kepler's census of planets orbiting roughly 170,000 stars is enabling astronomers to predict how common planets similar to Earth are across the galaxy.

Meet the man behind Kepler, the planet - finding telescope that is hot on the trail of Earth - like worlds.

The Kepler space telescope is not quite dead.

The first evidence for an exomoon — a moon orbiting a planet orbiting a distant star — may have been spotted in data from the Kepler space telescope.

To monitor many stars and maximize its chances of finding Earths, Kepler is forced to monitor distant ones; any Earths it finds will most likely be about 300 light - years away, too far for any currently imaginable space telescopes to take a spectrum from.

The Kepler spacecraft was launched in 2009 to hunt for exoplanets in a single patch of sky, but in 2013 a mechanical failure crippled the telescope.

Marcy is one of the principal investigators on NASA's Kepler space telescope, which is responsible for the discovery of most of the nearly 2000 exoplanets known today, and has been tipped for a Nobel prize for his work in the field.

Although Kepler and Corot are focusing on sunlike stars that could support true analogues of Earth, much of the action at ground - based telescopes is concentrating on red dwarf stars, for the simple reason that planets are easier to find there.

Additionally, the thousands of worlds discovered by NASA's planet - hunting Kepler mission strongly suggest that «there should be as many small planets like the Earth as there are stars,» Morse explains, meaning that to see one astronomers should not need to build a gargantuan telescope that could peer clear across the galaxy.

NASA's Kepler telescope has found over 1200 possible exoplanets and we would dearly love to find out what these worlds are like.

This weighty moon would change the timing and duration of its planet's transits enough to be detectable by the Kepler planet - finding satellite, or even by ground - based telescopes.

Astronomer Boss gives an inside view of how new space telescopes like Kepler and Corot are on the verge of finding Earth - like worlds around other stars.

Kepler detected the planet, which is about 2.5 times as wide as Earth, as a brief dip in starlight as HIP 116454b passed between its sun and the telescope.

The last one seen in our galaxy was recorded by Johannes Kepler in 1604, five years before Galileo turned his first telescope skyward.

But evaporation might, however, explain the disappearance of atmospheres observed on rocky exoplanets, which rotate very close to their star and are extremely hot, such as the famous «super-Earths» discovered by the Corot and Kepler spatial telescopes.

The Kepler space telescope has bagged its first confirmed planet since being benched in the summer of 2013 by a broken part used to steady the spacecraft (SN: 9/21/13, p. 18).

Located 620 light - years away, it is the first planet found by NASA's Kepler space telescope to reside in its star's habitable zone — a region that can support liquid water, a key requirement for life on Earth.

Recent observations from the Kepler space telescope suggest that planets the size of Jupiter are relatively uncommon around other stars.

What a run it was: For about four years, the Kepler space telescope watched more than 100,000 stars, looking for very slight dimming — a sign that a planet had crossed in front.

But half of Kepler's data hasn't yet been analyzed; this latter portion is where Earth - size worlds in habitable orbits are most likely to turn up, because the longer the mission and the more data the telescope collects, the stronger the signals are from these planets.

Exoplanet - hunting may get a boost in February, when NASA's Kepler telescope is set to release a flood of data.

Previous sky surveys with ground - based telescopes have mainly detected giant planets, while NASA's Kepler observatory has uncovered the existence of many smaller exoplanets, but their host stars are faint and difficult to study.

Because Kepler's stars were so far and so dim, some of its planet candidates were confirmed as actual planets only by statistics rather than by other telescopes.

The research will help astronomers determine which planets discovered with NASA's Kepler telescope — which has a primary mission of finding habitable planets similar to Earth — are actually more analogous to Earth's similarly - sized sister planet.

Then there was the Kepler telescope, which found thousands of planets, including some in the habitable zone, and some within a few dozen light - years of us.

Data from the Kepler space telescope show that exoplanets tend to be similar in size to their neighbours and regularly spaced, no matter the size of their star

Astrophysicists at the University of Birmingham have used data from the NASA Kepler space telescope to discover a class of extrasolar planets whose atmospheres have been stripped away by their host stars, according to research published in the journal Nature Communications today (11 April 2016).