PBS3y
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 ...
Phys.org16d
Even more planets may be hiding in Kepler's fields
As with many space telescope ... data sets like Kepler's for some time to come. More information: John Bienias et al, Background exoplanet candidates in the original Kepler field, arXiv (2025).
Nature9d
NASA’s ‘most prolific planet hunter so far’ — the story of the Kepler Space Telescope
Hidden in the Heavens: How the Kepler Mission’s Quest for New Planets Changed How We View Our Own Jason Steffen ... His concept was for a space telescope dedicated to detecting extrasolar ...
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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 ...
University of Manchester3y
Kepler telescope glimpses a free-floating planet population
During this two-month campaign, Kepler ... telescope with blurred vision at one the most densely crowded parts of the sky, where there are already thousands of bright stars that vary in brightness, ...
University of Manchester1y
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 ...