Ep 11. Transiting Planets and the Kepler Mission
- TV-PG
- September 25, 2015
- 31 min
The planet search took a giant leap forward in 2009 with the launch of the Kepler spacecraft, which used the transit technique to observe nearly 200,000 stars over a four-year period. Study Kepler�۪s goals, results, and the persistence of the astronomer who championed it.