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    SN 1604, also known as Kepler's Supernova, Kepler's Nova or Kepler's Star, was a Type Ia supernova that occurred in the Milky Way, in the constellation...
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  • A Kepler object of interest (KOI) is a star observed by the Kepler space telescope that is suspected of hosting one or more transiting planets. KOIs come...
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    The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a space telescope designed to conduct infrared astronomy. Its high-resolution and high-sensitivity instruments...
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    planet on which life could reside. The name "Kepler" comes from its discovery by the Kepler Space Telescope, or "NASA Discovery Mission Number 10," a spacecraft...
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    Great Observatories program (category Spitzer Space Telescope)
    X-ray optics, giving spatial resolution an order of magnitude better than collimated instruments (comparable to optical telescopes), with an enormous improvement...
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    planets follow circular orbits about the Sun. This was revised by Johannes Kepler, yielding an elliptic orbit for Mars that more accurately fitted the observational...
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    2017-12-18. Retrieved 2009-03-14. "Kepler Mission". NASA. Archived from the original on 2014-03-06. Retrieved 2008-02-28. "Kepler – About – Mission News". NASA...
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  • increase greatly in the coming years.[better source needed] The Kepler space telescope has also detected a few thousand candidate planets, of which about...
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    called, would last until Isaac Newton’s work over a century later. Johannes Kepler published his first two laws about planetary motion in 1609, having found...
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    Horizon Telescope". The Astrophysical Journal Letters (2041–8205). Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration (2021). "First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results...
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