HubbleSite: News - Kepler Science Will Continue Using STScI Archive

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Summary:

"The Kepler spacecraft launched in 2009 with the goal of finding exoplanets orbiting distant stars. In the years since, astronomers have used Kepler observations to discover 2,818 exoplanets as well as another 2,679 exoplanet candidates which need further confirmation. On October 30, 2018 NASA announced that Kepler had run out of fuel and would be decommissioned. While spacecraft operations have ceased, its data will continue to be publicly available through the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST) at the Space Telescope Science Institute. These data will enable new scientific discoveries for years to come."

Link:

http://hubblesite.org/news_release/news/2018-55

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oa.nasa oa.astronomy oa.data oa.repositories.data oa.usa oa.repositories

Date tagged:

11/04/2018, 17:01

Date published:

11/04/2018, 12:01