Kepler Space Telescope Poster Solar System including the Australe basin on

including the Australe basin on the Southern hemisphere

Why this photo is so special

For Art Collectors: Beyond scientific value

while radio data from MeerKAT appear in lilac and gray

The view does not include the rover's arm

Kepler Space Telescope Poster Solar System including the Australe basin onKepler Space Telescope: Mission & Legacy Launched in 2009, the Kepler Space Telescope taught us that our galaxy has more planets than stars. Initially, Kepler stared at a single patch of sky for four years, watching for shadows: the extremely tiny dip in starlight as a planet crosses the face of its star. Kepler's field of view contained more than 150,000 stars, and the telescope saw thousands of such shadows, known as transits. The telescope lost