Nasa’s Kepler Mission sent out a space telescope, away from the Earth’s atmosphere, to look deeply into the cosmos and at stars. In turn, many discoveries were made.

Dr. Jackie Faherty, Ph.D., is the American Museum of Natural History’s Senior Scientist and Senior Education Manager.

0:00 The Kepler Mission
1:14 The Kepler space telescope
2:19 Discoveries from Kepler
3:30 Planet Equilibrium Temperature scale
3:44 Kepler by the numbers of how much information it brought in
7:11 Histogram of the planets discovered by Kepler in planet size
9:29 Radial Velocity Method
10:25 Kepler’s camera

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