Astronomers studying data from NASA's retired Kepler space telescope discovered a new system of seven "scorching" planets orbiting a distant star that is bigger and hotter than the sun ...

Detecting this decline required many years of careful observation. The watch started with Kepler and then was picked up by the Palomar Observatory’s Hale Telescope in Southern California and finally ...

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It's now earned the name "Kepler-51e." "We were really puzzled ... That's over two-and-a-half times larger than the Hubble Space Telescope's mirror. Capturing more light allows Webb to see more ...

The research team set out to study Kepler-51d, the third planet in the system, with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) but almost missed their chance when the planet unexpectedly passed in ...

But with the first telescope observations of the Sun only ... To correctly interpret Kepler’s original findings, Hayakawa and his team needed to narrow down when the observation was taken ...

Fortunately, it's not our only orbital telescope. The Kepler Space Telescope, named for astronomer Johannes Kepler, was NASA's first exoplanet hunting telescope. It launched on March 6 ...

That means that Kepler's famed schematic drawing diagrammed in ... rather than at the beginning of a new one (solar cycle-14). Later telescope observations during the new cycle placed the sunspots ...

Since Kepler lacked the telescope, he instead examined the sun using camera obscura. That method used a "small hole in a wall to project the sun's image onto a sheet of paper," the statement noted.