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Kepler data have also helped scientists observe and understand supernovae; measurements were collected every half-hour so the light curves were especially useful for studying these types of astronomical events. [44] On October 30, 2018, after the spacecraft ran out of fuel, NASA announced that the telescope would be retired. [45]
An artist's rendition of Kepler-62f, a potentially habitable exoplanet discovered using data transmitted by the Kepler space telescope. The list of exoplanets detected by the Kepler space telescope contains bodies with a wide variety of properties, with significant ranges in orbital distances, masses, radii, composition, habitability, and host star type.
Planet Discovery method Mass (M J) Radius (R J) Density (g/cm 3) Orbital period ()Semimajor axis ()Orbital eccentricity Year of confirmation Ref. Earth (for reference): 0.003 15
The archive also develops Web-based tools and services to work with the data, particularly the display and analysis of transit data sets from the Kepler mission and COnvection ROtation and planetary Transits (CoRoT) mission, for which the Exoplanet Archive is the U.S. data portal.
All data are validated by the NStED science staff and traced to their sources. NStED is the U.S. data portal for the CoRoT mission. As of June 2007, the database catalogued 140,230 stars, [1] but by December 2011, SDtED was no longer in operation. Most data and services have been transferred to the NASA Exoplanet Archive.
The planet was found using data from the NASA Kepler Space Telescope, K2, and the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite.K2-415b was discovered in February 2023. [2]K2-415b is approximately 1.015 times the radius of Earth and is less than 7.5 times the mass of Earth.
Its discovery is based on data from the K2 mission of NASA's Kepler spacecraft. [5] The exoplanet has also been observed from ground-based telescopes including the Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT) in La Palma and the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii. [5] Its characteristics were confirmed using speckle imaging and high-dispersion optical spectroscopy. [3]
The name Kepler-90 derives directly from the fact that the star is the catalogued 90th star discovered by Kepler to have confirmed planets. [6] The whole star and planet system is designated by just "Kepler-90", without a postfix, with Kepler-90A specifically referring only to the star, if needed for clarity.