Three exoplanets were hidden away in 2018 Kepler Space Telescope data, until now.
Kepler ran out of fuel in October 2018, and thus the mission ended. But Kepler data still holds cosmic secrets, and this week a team of astronomers announced the discovery of three planets seen by the telescope just before it was retired. The team’s research was“These discoveries demonstrate Kepler’s exoplanet detection power, even when it was literally running on fumes.”The planets were observed during the final series of observations by Kepler, a campaign called K2 Campaign 19.
“These discoveries demonstrate Kepler’s exoplanet detection power, even when it was literally running on fumes,” the team stated in the paper.The research team also used the help of the Visual Survey Group, a citizen scientist group that pored over light curves from stars seen by Kepler during the campaign. Dips in the light curve typically, use the same method to search for exoplanets.
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