Kepler’s planet candidates as of Feb. 1, 2011. Image credit: NASA/Wendy Stenzel
Kepler’s candidates of multi-planet systems. Image credit: NASA/Tim Pyle
Kepler-11 Planet Sizes
The daytime temperature’s expected to be more than 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit, hotter than lava flows here on Earth, hot enough…
Kepler-10b orbits one of the 150,000 stars that the Kepler spacecraft is monitoring, a star that is very similar to…
The world’s largest vacuum chamber resides at the NASA Glenn Research Center’s Space Power Facility, located at Plum Brook Station…
Planet Kepler-10b is orbiting it star about 20 times closer to its star than Mercury is to our own Sun.…
Kepler-10b orbits one of the 150,000 stars that the spacecraft is monitoring between the constellations of Cygnus and Lyra. We…
This artist’s conception shows the Kepler-11 planetary system and our solar system from a tilted perspective to demonstrate that the…
Kepler-11 is a sun-like star around which six planets orbit. At times, two or more planets pass in front of…