No. Kepler is a telescope created to find planets orbiting other stars. Planets found using it are given designations beginning with Kepler, such as Kepler 440b.
There is no single planet named Kepler; rather Kepler is a prefix added to the designations of planets discovered by the Kepler telescope. Several planets discovered by Kepler, including Kepler-438b, Kepler-442b, Kepler 440b, and Kepler 296f, orbit in the habitable zones of their stars, which means they might have liquid water on their surfaces. Currently we do not have the technology to determine if they actually have liquid water.
No. There are, however, many planets discovered by a spacecraft called Kepler and given designations such as Kepler-69c.
Kepler is more specialized than Hubble. It was purpose-built for a very wide field of view but has smaller optics than Hubble. Kepler is kept focused on a single section of space for years watching for variations in luminosity from stars to indicate the existence of planets orbiting other stars. Basically put, Hubble is meant for general purpose astronomy, while Kepler is specifically used to find planets.
Kepler-22b was given its the designation Kepler as it is one of many planets discovered by the Kepler observatory. The 22b refers to it being the innermost (and only known) planet orbiting the star Kepler-22.
No. Kepler is a telescope created to find planets orbiting other stars. Planets found using it are given designations beginning with Kepler, such as Kepler 440b.
There are lots of planets in the Kepler series. To answer your question, we need to know to which number Kepler you are asking about.
There is no single planet named Kepler; rather Kepler is a prefix added to the designations of planets discovered by the Kepler telescope. Several planets discovered by Kepler, including Kepler-438b, Kepler-442b, Kepler 440b, and Kepler 296f, orbit in the habitable zones of their stars, which means they might have liquid water on their surfaces. Currently we do not have the technology to determine if they actually have liquid water.
There is no single planet named Kepler; rather Kepler is a prefix added to the designations of planets discovered by the Kepler telescope. Several planets discovered by Kepler, including Kepler-438b, Kepler-442b, Kepler 440b, and Kepler 296f, orbit in the habitable zones of their stars, which means they might have liquid water on their surfaces. Currently we do not have the technology to determine if they actually have liquid water.
Johannes Kepler
No. There are, however, many planets discovered by a spacecraft called Kepler and given designations such as Kepler-69c.
Johannes Kepler did. Obviously Tycho Brahe did, and Kepler was his assistant. There have been others too. I think Ptolemy used one.
Kepler is more specialized than Hubble. It was purpose-built for a very wide field of view but has smaller optics than Hubble. Kepler is kept focused on a single section of space for years watching for variations in luminosity from stars to indicate the existence of planets orbiting other stars. Basically put, Hubble is meant for general purpose astronomy, while Kepler is specifically used to find planets.
Kepler-22b was given its the designation Kepler as it is one of many planets discovered by the Kepler observatory. The 22b refers to it being the innermost (and only known) planet orbiting the star Kepler-22.
Ceres and Eris are not planets; they are classified as dwarf planets. Eris was discovered in our solar system recently and not by the Kepler mission. Ceres is not "new" either; it was discovered the first day of the 19th. Century. I didn't check the specific "Kepler-" codes, but that looks like planets discovered by the Kepler mission to be orbiting around other stars.
Many of the planets discovered in the past few years have designations such as Kepler-22b because they were discovered using the Kepler space telescope.
There is no planet named Kepler. There are, however, many planets with designations such as Kepler-22b. These planets are named as such because they were discovered using the Kepler spacecraft. The spacecraft is named after Johannes Kepler, a 16th-17th century astronomer who defined the laws of planetary motion.