Kepler Telescope Research Paper

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From as far back as I can remember, I have always had an interest to “look up.”

Often times I think to myself, “Is someone, somewhere, gazing into the same night sky

and wondering the same thing?” Here on Earth there are others that share this same

view; this is where the Kepler Space Telescope is going to hopefully answer this

question. Kepler is unlike any other space telescope, in that it does not just point in one

Direction and send a picture back to NASA. What makes this telescope different is that

Kepler is focused on one portion of the night sky for months at a time, taking hundreds

of pictures of the same spot. The main mission of the Kepler telescope is to watch

thousands of stars for a slight dimming of their

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