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Kepler space telescope
Kepler space telescope
- The Kepler space telescope has run out of fuel and will be retired after a 9-1/2-year mission in which it detected thousands of planets beyond our solar system and boosted the search for worlds that might harbour alien life.
- Currently orbiting the sun 156 million km from the earth, the spacecraft will drift further from our planet when mission engineers turn off its radio transmitters.
Kepler space telescope
- It is an unmanned space observatory.
- Launched in 2009 by NASA .
- It aims to detect Earth-like planets in the Milky Way galaxy.
- It does not probe the environmental conditions of planets.
- It works by observing a dimming in the light of a star, known as a transit, each time an orbiting planet passes in front of it.
- Achievements-1. The telescope laid bare the diversity of planets that reside in our Milky Way galaxy.2. It has findings indicating that distant star systems are populated with billions of planets, and even helped pinpoint the first moon known outside our solar system.3. The Kepler telescope discovered more than 2,600 of the roughly 3,800 exoplanets (the term for planets outside our solar system) that have been documented in the past two decades.
Source
The Hindu