Summary of NAUKAS 2022. Daniel Marín: Las cinco vidas de un cazador de planetas

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The video discusses the history of the Kepler space telescope and how it has been used to discover thousands of planets outside of our solar system.

• 00:00:00 In the 1990s, two astronomers, William Borucki and Bill Borucki's colleague, Gurú Key, came up with a new way to find planets outside of our solar system- by using a telescope that could see a large number of stars at the same time. The idea was accepted, and in 1995, a telescope was built based on the idea- called "Ofrecí." However, shortly after it was built, it was decided that it would be too expensive to operate, and so it was never put into use. However, in 1996, something happened that changed everything- a planet was discovered around a star that was similar to our own. This discovery led to the development of a more advanced telescope- "Armadillo"- which could detect planets orbiting close to their stars. With this new technology, thousands of planets have now been discovered.
• 00:05:00 In the video, Daniel Marin, a former astronaut, discusses the history of the Kepler space telescope. Kepler was originally launched in 2006, but due to funding problems, it was not launched until 2009. In 2001, the telescope was refined and deemed to be free of any major hardware problems. In 2009, it was finally launched into space and began observing and discovering thousands of planets outside of our solar system. Two vertical lines, which are called "tandas" by Kepler, were discovered this way.