The planet Kepler 69c follows a Venus-like orbit around a sunlike star.

开普勒69c围绕一颗类太阳恒星运转，其轨道类似于金星围绕太阳公转的轨道。

This blob is where NASA's Kepler space telescope stared at for about four whole years.

美国国家航空航天局开用普勒太空望观察这里大约四年。

No, but still, it is supposedly in or near the habitable zone of Kepler 16.

仍然位于开普勒16号的适居区内或附近。

Kepler has discovered around 2,600 exoplanets- those that orbit stars other than the sun.

开普勒发现了约2600颗外星行星—那些围绕恒星而太阳运行的行星。

And we have well over 3000 more candidates from Kepler awaiting confirmation.

我们还有3000多名被开普勒所探测的候选星等待确认。

The Kepler telescope obtained data on two such transits.

开普勒望得了两次这样的凌日数据。

But Kepler went even further than just pontificating about the sun.

开普勒并没有止步于对太阳的推测。

A NASA spacecraft called Kepler has found thousands of exoplanets this way.

美国宇航局一艘名为开普勒的宇宙飞船以这种方式发现了数千颗系外行星。

This is where the Kepler Space Telescope focused for many years.

开普勒太空望在这里聚焦了很多年。

Kepler's data reveals planets' sizes as well as their distance from their parent star.

Kepler的數據揭示了行星的大小以及们与直系恒星之间的距离。

It began in 2009 with the launch of NASA's Kepler mission.

故事开始于 2009 年， NASA 启动了开普勒计划。

The data came from NASA's Kepler telescope and the European Space Agency's Gaia telescope.

这些数据来自美国航空航天局的开普勒太空望和欧洲航天局的盖亚太空望。

NASA's Kepler spacecraft has discovered three new planets that are close to earth's size.

美国国家航空航天局的“开普勒”宇宙飞船发现了与地球大小接近的三颗新行星。

Kepler is accredited with revolutionizing understanding of the universe.

开普勒因变革了人类对宇宙的认识而为世人认可。

But the Kepler Space Telescope, launched in 2009 was literally above all that.

是，2009年发射的开普勒太空望在这一切之上。

It flags likely looking reductions as “candidate planets”, of which Kepler 22b was one.

观测者会发现恒星表面上出现疑是“候选行星”的小黑。“开普勒22b”就是这些候选行星之一。

Kepler's second law deals with the speed of planets orbiting the Sun.

开普勒第二定律研究的是行星绕太阳运行的速度。

Kepler made it possible for us to measure stellar brightness much more precisely than we had before.

开普勒让我们可以以前所未有的精度测量恒星亮度。

Kepler's second law tells us that a planet moves more slowly when it's further from the Sun.

开普勒第二定律告诉我们，离太阳越的行星运动速度越慢。

To find their moon, the two researchers sifted through data from 284 different exoplanets that Kepler had spotted.

为了找到他们的这种卫星，两名研究人员从开普勒探测到的284种不同系外行星中筛选数据。