Kepler telescope
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Kepler telescope
First recorded in 1905–10; after J. Kepler
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More than 5,000 exoplanets have already been discovered in the Milky Way, mostly with NASA’s Kepler telescope, which was in use for 9 years before it ran out of fuel in 2018.
From Scientific American • Apr. 13, 2022
Kepler-10b was the first rocky planet to be discovered by the Kepler telescope, in 2011.
From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2022
The Kepler telescope continued to observe for two more years, looking for short-period transits in different parts of the sky.
From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016
The Kepler telescope can find possible planets by detecting tiny changes in the brightness of stars as planets pass between them and Earth.
From The Guardian • Jul. 23, 2015
Huygens discovered also that an object placed in the common focus of the two lenses of a Kepler telescope appears distinct and clearly defined.
From A History of Science — Volume 2 by Williams, Henry Smith
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