Kepler Telescope Rejoins Novel Alien Planet Search Campaign
Credit: NASA
HOUSTON — NASA’s exoplanet-hunting Kepler Space Telescope on April 22 resumed its role in a novel gravitational microlensing campaign to seek out extrasolar planets in the outermost orbits of their host stars and Jupiter-sized planets called free floaters that drift between the stars. “Campaign 9”...
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