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Two Types of Telescopes
Kepler's advance created a new challenge, however. Because his telescope offered a much greater field of view, astronomers had plenty of room to improve magnification. One way to do that ...
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Kepler’s Children: Meet The Scientists Searching for Other Earths
The Kepler telescope, launched in 2009 ... The planets in Kepler’s narrow field of view were as far as 3,000 light-years away, too distant for telescopes to make out any detail.
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Kepler – NASA’s planet-hunting spacecraft – retired after…
As the highly successful Kepler spacecraft ends its 9-year ... would detect minute variations in starlight from the field that the telescope would be assigned to observe. The spacecraft would ...
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The Evolution Of The Telescope, From Galileo To Hubble And Beyond
The field of view was so narrow that only about half ... Fortunately, it's not our only orbital telescope. The Kepler Space Telescope, named for astronomer Johannes Kepler, was NASA's first ...
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NASA just discovered nearly 100 new alien planets as the search for life heats up
NASA’s Kepler space telescope was launched for the purpose ... “Exoplanets are a very exciting field of space science,” Andrew Mayo of the National Space Institute at the Technical ...
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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 ...