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How Kepler
discovers planets
Kepler animation
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Click on image below to see the region of the Milky Way where Kepler will search for extrasolar planets.

Kepler Home graphic
See also Target Region—artwork by Jon Lomberg

Name In Space Icon

Put your name on board the Kepler spacecraft. Your name will be stored on a DVD and Kepler will carry it into space. Name in Space is an activity in association with the International Year of Astronomy 2009 .

Kepler Star Wheel Thumbnail
Download Kepler Star Wheel - a unique planisphere to find the location of the Kepler target field of view as well as naked eye stars known to have exoplanets visible from the northern hemisphere
Planet Families thumbnail

Interactive web page:
Planet Families—Build-a-Solar System

News Hour podcast about planet discovery 7 Nov 2007. Astronomers Spy New Planet in Distant Solar System.
( PBS News Hour)
NASA Ames Research Center Planet Quest Other NASA Missions Johannes Kepler