... 2011 February 3 . Six Worlds for Kepler-11 . Illustration Credit: Tim Pyle, NASA . ... Explanation: Six worlds orbit Kepler-11 , a sunlike star 2,000 light-years distant in the constellation Cygnus. ...
... 2009 March 9 . Kepler's Streak . Credit Copyright : Ben Cooper . ... Explanation: Streaking skyward , a Delta II rocket carries NASA's Kepler spacecraft aloft into the clear night of March 6. ...
... Explanation: Using the prolific planet hunting Kepler spacecraft, astronomers have discovered 1,235 candidate planets orbiting other suns since the Kepler mission's search for Earth-like worlds began in 2009 . ...
... 2013 May 15 . Kepler's Supernova Remnant in X-Rays . Image Credit: X-ray: NASA / CXC / NCSU /M. Burkey et al. Optical: DSS . ... Some type of star exploded to create the unusually shaped nebula known as Kepler's supernova remnant , but which type? ...
... Kepler is youngest supernova in our galaxy ever seen by the naked eye . ... Johannes Kepler is one lucky man. ... Amazingly, he was able to see the Kepler supernova without the aid of a telescope. ...
... Consider visiting Kepler-16b , a world in a binary star system. ... In fact Kepler-16b is the first discovered circumbinary planet . ... But Kepler-16b itself was discovered by following the additional very slight dimming ...
... Illustration Credit: David A. Aguilar ( CfA ), TrES , Kepler , NASA . Explanation: Why is this planet so dark? ... however, was only uncovered recently by observations indicating its slight reflective glow by the Sun-orbiting Kepler satellite ...
... Quite common, according to extrapolations from new data taken by NASA's orbiting Kepler spacecraft . ... in Earth-like orbits is surely much less, but even so, Kepler has also just announced the discovery of four more of those ...