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Roger Hunter

Updates from Kepler Mission Manager - Roger Hunter

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Johannes Kepler

Portrait of Johannes Kepler

His Life, His Laws and Times

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News and Features

A timeline of Kepler discoveries with artist concept images.

Kepler Mission Manager Update

At our semi-weekly contact on Tuesday, May 14, 2013, we found the Kepler spacecraft once again in safe mode.

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a view of Kepler in space

NASA Hosts Kepler Spacecraft Status Teleconference ...

NASA will host a news teleconference at 4 p.m. EDT, today, May 15, to discuss the status of the agency's Kepler Space Telescope.

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a view of Kepler in space

Kepler Mission Manager Update

During a scheduled contact, engineers discovered Kepler was in a self-protective mode. The spacecraft returned to science data collection on May 6.

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Kepler Milky Way

Kepler Mission Manager Update

The team recently completed a monthly science data download, marking the successful completion of Quarter 16 flight operations.

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Artist's conceptions of the newly discovered planets shown in a row next to Earth to illustrate their relative sizes.

Kepler Discovers Its Smallest 'Habitable Zone' Planets

NASA's Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the "habitable zone."

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Kepler and the constellation of Cygnus.

NASA Hosts Media Briefing to Discuss Kepler Discovery

NASA will host a news briefing at 2 p.m. EDT, Thursday, April 18, to announce new discoveries from the agency's Kepler mission.

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This artist's concept depicts a dense, dead star called a white dwarf

Gravity-Bending Find Leads to Kepler Meeting Einstein

The light of a red star is warped and magnified by its dead-star companion, as detected by NASA's Kepler space telescope.

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Kepler and the constellation of Cygnus.

Kepler Mission Manager Update

The spacecraft continues to operate efficiently and the science team has had a chance to examine the high rate data that was downlinked on March 6-7.

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a view of Kepler in space

Kepler Mission Manager Update

Since returning to science data collection on Jan. 27, 2013, after a 10-day precautionary wheel rest safe mode, the spacecraft has been performing ...

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The artist's concept depicts the new planet dubbed Kepler-37b.

Kepler Mission Discovers Tiny Planet System

Kepler mission scientists have discovered a new planetary system that is home to the smallest planet yet found around a star similar to our sun.

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Latest Images

Kepler-62f with 62e as Morning Star

An artist's concept of the Kepler-62 system showing rocky Kepler-62f in the foreground, the star, Kepler-62a just rising over the edge of the planet and, seen as a small, bright light in the sky, the planet Kepler-62e.

The artist's concept depicts NASA's Kepler misssion's smallest habitable zone planet. Seen in the foreground is Kepler-62f, a super-Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of a star smaller and ...

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Kepler-62 and the Solar System

The diagram compares the planets of our inner solar system to Kepler-62.

The diagram compares the planets of the inner solar system to Kepler-62, a five-planet system about 1,200 light-years from Earth in the constellation Lyra. The five planets of Kepler-62 orbit a star ...

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Kepler-62e

An artist's concept of Kepler-62e.

The artist's concept depicts Kepler-62e, a super-Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of a star smaller and cooler than the sun, located about 1,200 light-years from Earth in the constellation ...

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Kepler Planet Count

    Confirmed Planets: 132
    Planet Candidates: 2,740
    Eclipsing Binary Stars: 2,165
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