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Which telescope was designed to detect exoplanets?

The Kepler Space Telescope

Space Chandra Telescope

The Hubble Space Telescope

Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA)

Kepler is a space observatory launched by NASA to discover Earth-size planets orbiting other stars. Named after astronomer Johannes Kepler, the spacecraft was launched on March , 2009, in. Designed to survey a portion of our region of the Milky Way to discover Earth-size exoplanets in or near habitable zones and estimate how many of the billions of stars in the Milky Way have such planets,

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The bright circle around the Sun seen in the picture is known as a halo. What causes it?

refraction of light in ice crystals

refraction in the lens of the eye or lens

refraction of light in water drops

reflections from the water surface

What is larger in the sky: the Moon or the Sun? (By apparent size)

both are identical

sometimes the Moon, sometimes the Sun

In which month is the Earth closest to the Sun?

there is no difference

Who designed the German MP 40 submachine gun known as Schmeisser?

Heinrich Vollmer

Hugo Schmeisser