Reflections on NASA’s Kepler Mission

The Kepler space telescope was NASA’s first mission to take a survey of exoplanets in our galaxy. The mission revealed that there are more planets than stars in the Milky Way, many of them rocky like Earth, and others unlike anything found in our own Solar System. Three members of the Kepler team from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory reflect on the mission.

[zapfanzapfan]

I took a course on exoplanets before Kepler launched, there was 400-and-some planets known, almost all of them much bigger than the Earth. Now, 10 years later, 10 times more planets and lots of them are Earth-ish in size. Kepler is one of the best space missions ever!

[chrismusix]

Earth is someone else's exo-planet.

[warpartyattheoutpost]

For now we see through a glass, darkly.

[ZombieB]

I'm working in a time machine, do you think that i can realize my Project...

[nesa]

Good job on this! Also, I can't wait James Webb, that thing looks like a beast. :D

[dianaxd]

Why Kepker was death and not the ignorance??? Why

[GAWARZMBASRY]

All these discoveries told us 5% about our universe or less