![]() PIA20692: Young Star and Its Infant Planet (Artist's animation) Full Resolution: TIFF (1.433 MB) JPEG (70.08 kB) PIA20698: K2 Finds Earth-Sized Planets (Artist's Concept) Full Resolution: TIFF (2.043 MB) JPEG (139.7 kB) PIA21072: Comet 67P Seen by Kepler Full Resolution: TIFF (400.4 kB) JPEG (46.74 kB) PIA21074: Clouds on Hot Jupiters (Illustration) Full Resolution: TIFF (31.99 MB) JPEG (1.181 MB) PIA21075: Heartbeat Stars (Artist's Concept) Full Resolution: TIFF (16.76 MB) JPEG (600 kB) PIA21470: Water World Artist Concept Full Resolution: TIFF (3.278 MB) JPEG (163.5 kB) PIA22192: Kepler-90 system (Artist's Concept) Full Resolution: TIFF (10.73 MB) JPEG (573.3 kB) PIA22193: Kepler-90 System Compared to Our Solar System (Artist's Concept) Full Resolution: TIFF (645.6 kB) JPEG (50.32 kB) PIA22088: Kepler K2-138 System (Artist's Concept) Full Resolution: TIFF (18.94 MB) JPEG (551.1 kB) PIA22350: Kepler Beyond Planets: Finding Exploding Stars (Core Collapse Supernova) Full Resolution: TIFF (586.8 kB) JPEG (82.38 kB) PIA22351: Kepler Beyond Planets: Finding Exploding Stars (Type Felt Supernova) Full Resolution: TIFF (585.8 kB) JPEG (79.56 kB) PIA22352: Kepler Beyond Planets: Finding Exploding Stars (Type Ia Supernova from a White Dwarf Stealing Matter) Full Resolution: TIFF (1.887 MB) JPEG (92.24 kB) PIA22353: Kepler Beyond Planets: Finding Exploding Stars (Type Ia Supernova from a White Dwarf Merger) Full Resolution: TIFF (994.5 kB) JPEG (59.68 kB) PIA23002: K2-138 6 Planets Artwork (Artist's Illustration) Full Resolution: TIFF (12.4 MB) JPEG (399.2 kB) PIA23689: Kepler Planet 1649c Artist's Illustration From Space Full Resolution: TIFF (15.27 MB) JPEG (563.2 kB) PIA23690: Kepler Planet 1649c Surface View Artist's Concept Full Resolution: TIFF (7.746 MB) JPEG (315.6 kB) PIA23774: Comparing the Size of Exoplanet Kepler-1649c and Earth (Illustration) Full Resolution: TIFF (8.766 MB) JPEG (479.6 kB) "Its discoveries have shed a new light on our place in the universe, and illuminated the tantalizing mysteries and possibilities among the stars,” he said.Click on an image for detailed informationĬlick on a column heading to sort in ascending or descending order My List “Not only did it show us how many planets could be out there, it sparked an entirely new and robust field of research that has taken the science community by storm," Zurbuchen said. The telescope was named after the German mathematician and astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571 – 1630). ![]() The spacecraft's retirement isn't the end of Kepler's discoveries, however: NASA said that scientists are expected to spend at least a decade in search of new discoveries in the treasure trove of data Kepler has provided. It also tried to winnow down the hundreds of billions of stars in our galaxy that might have such planets, NASA reported. Kepler was specifically designed to survey our region of the Milky Way galaxy to discover hundreds of Earth-size and smaller planets that could harbor life. More: NASA's Kepler finds solar system like ours with eight planets More: NASA reveals modern constellations featuring Godzilla, Albert Einstein and The Hulk ![]() Watch Video: NASA’s Kepler Telescope helps discover new supernova Now powerless, it will continue to drift silently in orbit. The $700 million spacecraft will retire on its current, safe orbit around the sun, some 94 million miles from Earth. “Kepler opened the gate for mankind’s exploration of the cosmos." “When we started conceiving this mission 35 years ago we didn’t know of a single planet outside our solar system,” said Kepler mission founder William Borucki, now retired from NASA’s Ames Research Center. The planets are revealed by dips in starlight, or transits, as they eclipse their suns. Launched in 2009, the telescope was already well past its expected lifetime and had been running low on fuel for months. Kepler leaves behind a legacy of more than 2,600 planet discoveries from outside our solar system (known as exoplanets), many of which could be promising places for life. “As NASA’s first planet-hunting mission, Kepler has wildly exceeded all our expectations and paved the way for our exploration and search for life in the solar system and beyond,” NASA's Thomas Zurbuchen said in a statement Tuesday. Watch Video: NASA retires planet-spying Kepler Space TelescopeĪfter 9 years in space and over 2,600 planets discovered, NASA said it's finally time to retire its Kepler Space Telescope.
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