Digging Through Kepler Data Turns Up a Near Twin of Jupiter - Universe Today

Einstein predicted that high-mass objects can bend light. Now astronomers are using that fact to detect more exoplanets.

NASA’s Kepler planet-hunting spacecraft was deactivated in November 2018, about ten years after it launched. The mission detected over 5,000 candidate exoplanets and 2,662 confirmed exoplanets using … [+9009 chars]

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