The Search for Exoplanets: What Astronomers Know

Transiting Planets and the Kepler Mission

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S1 • E11    Sep 23, 2015    30m
The planet search took a giant leap forward in 2009 with the launch of the Kepler spacecraft, which used the transit technique to observe nearly 200,000 stars over a four-year period. Study Kepler's goals, results, and the persistence of the astronomer who championed it.

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