You'd be hard-pressed to get a NASA scientist to come out and say that the Kepler space telescope is designed to find aliens.

您可能会急于看到一位美国宇航局科学家站出来说，开普勒太空望远镜是用来寻找外星人的。

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The Kepler Space Telescope has discovered several systems that are very different from our own, and have caused scientists to rethink theories of planetary formation.

开普勒望远镜发现了几个系外行星系统和我们的太阳系迥然不同，从而让科学家重新构想行星形成理论。

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NASA's Kepler, a mission tasked with scouring a section of the universe in search of Earth-like planets, used its high-powered telescope to take these negative images of space.

美国宇航局的开普勒，以精练的在一个类似地球的行星，寻找宇宙中的第一个使命任务，利用其高功率利用太空望远镜这些负面形象。

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NASA scientists using the Kepler space telescope also announced the discovery of six planets orbiting a star called Kepler-11.

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The Kepler space telescope looks for planets by measuring tiny decreases in the brightness of stars when planets cross in front of them.

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The Kepler space telescope has been the source of most of the known candidate exoplanets.

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Some researchers have already started thinking about how they might use instruments like the planet-hunting Kepler Space Telescope to detect alien moons.

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This past December, for example, NASA's Kepler space telescope confirmed its first planet in the habitable zone, a "super Earth" known as Kepler-22b that's thought to be 2.4 times as wide as our planet.

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