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to search for Earth-size planets: planets: Earth-size for search to
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Kepler was designed to find exoplanets by looking for tiny dips in the brightness of a star when a planet planet a when star a of brightness the in dips tiny for looking by exoplanets find to designed was Kepler
those in the habitable zone of their stars where liquid water and possibly life might exist. exist. might life possibly and water liquid where stars their of zone habitable the in those
the Summer Triangle for over four years. Scientists are searching for Earth-like exoplanets, especially especially exoplanets, Earth-like for searching are Scientists years. four over for Triangle Summer the
, a space-based telescope, monitored more than 150,000 stars in a star field in in field star a in stars 150,000 than more monitored telescope, space-based a , Mission Kepler NASA’s
technology.
the variety of planetary systems in our stellar neighborhood thanks to improved instruments and and instruments improved to thanks neighborhood stellar our in systems planetary of variety the
. Scientists are just beginning to better understand understand better to beginning just are Scientists . exoplanets called stars, other orbiting planets of
The centuries-old quest for other worlds like our Earth has been reignited by the discovery of hundreds hundreds of discovery the by reignited been has Earth our like worlds other for quest centuries-old The The Search for Exoplanets for Search The
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SEE DISTANT STARS • FIND THE CONSTELLATIONS • VIEW AMAZING NEBULAE WHAT CAN YOU FIND IN THE TRIANGLE?
Epsilon Lyrae
< < Vega Kepler Summer Search LYRA Area Ring Nebula Triangle
CYGNUS < Albireo Deneb > Cygnus X-1 Coathanger M29 North Gliese 777a America Nebula Dumbbell Nebula AQUILA M71
Veil Nebula < Altair LEGEND Xi Aquilae Star with Exoplanets Band of the Milky Way Open Star Cluster Nebula Globular Star Cluster DELPHINUS Black Hole
Vega ❍ Epsilon Lyrae (double-double stars)* ❍ CYGNUS ❍ LYRA ❍ Deneb ❍ Gliese 777a (a star with exoplanets)* ❍ Stars & Star Clusters AQUILA Constellations Altair ❍ Xi (ksi) Aquilae (a star with exoplanets) ❍ ❍
Albireo ❍ M29 (Open star cluster)* ❍ DELPHINUS ❍
Coathanger * ❍ M71 (Globular star cluster)* ❍
Cygnus X-1 (location of a black hole) ❍ Ring (planetary - dying star)* ❍
North America (gas & dust cloud)* ❍ Band of the Milky Way ❍ Other Dumbbell (planetary - dying star)* ❍ Nebulae Kepler Search Area ❍ Veil (supernova remnant)* ❍
The area of the sky that Kepler monitored is just a * Visible in the telescope or binoculars little larger than your fist held at arm’s length. (depending on sky conditions)