Soh Kam Yung

"[T]he Kepler Space Telescope [...] remains humanity’s most prolific planet hunter so far, having spied thousands of distant planets and many more candidate ones. In Hidden in the Heavens, astrophysicist Jason Steffen — who joined the mission a year before it launched in 2009 — relates the story of Kepler and its surprising discoveries."

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00295-w

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NASA’s ‘most prolific planet hunter so far’ — the story of the Kepler Space Telescope

Ingenuity and decades of planning enabled the mission’s success.

Feb 4, 2025 at 12:55pmWeb