Kepler telescope. Artwork of NASA's Kepler telescope orbiting the Sun. The Kepler Mission is designed to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars,by monitoring the brightness of over 100,000 stars. The data will be studied for periodic fluctuations in a star's brightness that would indicate the presence of an orbiting exoplanet. The Kepler Mission launched on 7th March 2009 and the telescope took its first images on 8th April 2009 | |
Licence : | Droits gérés |
Crédit: | Science Photo Library / Shostak, Dr. Seth |
Taille de l’image : | 3592 px × 4878 px |
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