... The technique is to time the small variations in a star's brightness measured by the planet hunting Kepler spacecraft. ...
37. APOD: 2011 August 1 - Shuttle Reentry Streak from Orbit
... our Solar System and peer into our universe, including Cassini , Chandra , Chang'e 2 , Dawn , Fermi , Hubble , Kepler , LRO , Mars Express , Messenger , MRO , New Horizons , Opportunity , Planck , Rosetta , SDO , SOHO , Spitzer , STEREO , Swift , Venus ...
38. APOD: 2014 March 3 - Habitable Worlds
... Many previously-unknown planets are being found, including over 700 worlds recently uncovered by NASA's Kepler satellite. ...
39. APOD: 2015 June 19 - LightSail A
... Once considered the stuff of science fiction , sailing through space was suggested 400 years ago by astronomer Johannes Kepler who observed comet tails blown by the solar wind. ...