Conceptual drawing of the Kepler Space Observatory
Kepler is a space observatory planned by NASA that will search for extrasolar planets. For this purpose, it will observe the brightness of about 100,000 stars over several years to detect periodical occultations of a star by one of its planets. Kepler will not be in an Earth orbit but in an Earth-trailing solar orbit so that Earth will not occult the stars which are to be observed and the photometer will not be influenced by stray light from Earth. The observatory is scheduled for launch in 2007.
Example Usage of observatory
Hempel6: RT @canadacool: 2 km beneath Sudbury the is an observatory that was built to study the smallest particles in the universe http://bit.ly/8hCHuo
PEA_Obs: Created the Phillips Exeter Academy Grainger observatory page on FaceBook. Become a fan!
hongkong_news: Weather: At
10 p.m.
at the Hong Kong observatory :
Air temperature : 21 degrees http://url4.eu/1upQd
