Kepler space telescope
Astronomers have been searching far and wide for planets beyond our solar system. Most of the 800 confirmed discoveries have come from the Kepler space telescope, in a region extending 3000 light...
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The hunt for planets beyond our solar system has reached a fever pitch. With some 500 planets revealed by ground telescopes, now, the ultimate planet finder, the Kepler space telescope, has released a...
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On December 5th, 2011, the Kepler Science team announced that they had confirmed a planet roughly the size of ours, in orbit around a star very similar to the Sun. What's more, the distance of this...
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