Technicians from Ball Aerospace inspected the honeycomb structure of the Kepler Space Telescope’s primary mirror. The mirror has been 86% light-weighted; that is, it only weighs 14% of amount that a solid mirror of the same dimensions would. The mirror blank was made by Corning Glass works out of ultra-low expansion glass, or ULE.
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This artistic animation depicts one possible appearance of the planet Kepler-452b, the first near-Earth-size world to be found in the habitable zone of star that is similar to our sun. The planet’s rotation is sped up.
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The first fully automated and uniform process of the entire Kepler data set yields increases planet candidate count by 521 to a total of 4,696
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NASA’s Kepler mission has confirmed the first near-Earth-size planet in the “habitable zone” around a sun-like star. This discovery and the introduction of 11 other new small habitable zone candidate planets mark another milestone in the journey to finding another “Earth.”
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This artistic concept depicts one possible appearance of the planet Kepler-452b, the first near-Earth-size world to be found in the habitable zone of star that is similar to our sun.
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Kepler’s search for an Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of a star like our sun
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Kepler’s newest planetary find joins a pantheon of planets with similarities to Earth.
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Kepler-452b: Earth’s Bigger, Older Cousin
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Scale comparison of the Kepler-452 System and the solar system
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