Kepler mission exoplanet census
Miles de exoplanetas y su abundancia estadística (misión Kepler)
- Date
- 2009-2018 · confidence high
- Place
- NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, California, United States
- Credited to
- William Borucki and the Kepler mission team
- People
- 👤 William J. Borucki1939–
- Field
- Movement
What was discovered
Using the transit method, Kepler discovered more than 2,600 planets and showed that there are more planets than stars in the Galaxy, including rocky worlds in the habitable zone (Kepler-186f, Kepler-452b).
NASA space telescope; science operations centre at Ames.
What it led to
- Exoplanet statistics and eta-Earth
- TESS, PLATO and ARIEL missions
- Atmospheric characterisation
Built on
Made possible
- TRAPPIST-1 seven-planet system2016-2017
- Precision transit photometry