Kepler Space Telescope Poster Solar System This image captures the culmination

This image captures the culmination of a process that likely began over 100 million years ago

Unlike emission nebulae that glow red from excited hydrogen

We've touched the untouchable

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This captivating region

Kepler Space Telescope Poster Solar System This image captures the culminationKepler Space Telescope: Mission & Legacy Launched in 2009, the Kepler Space Telescope taught us that our galaxy has more planets than stars. Initially, Kepler stared at a single patch of sky for four years, watching for shadows: the extremely tiny dip in starlight as a planet crosses the face of its star. Kepler's field of view contained more than 150,000 stars, and the telescope saw thousands of such shadows, known as transits. The telescope lost