Who is Kepler Space Telescope?

Kepler Space Telescope is like a super detective who looks at stars to find out if there are other planets hiding around them.

Imagine you're playing hide-and-seek in your house. You can't see the people hiding, but you can tell they’re there because the lights in the room flicker or get dimmer when someone moves in front of a lamp. That’s how Kepler works, it looks at stars and sees if their light gets dimmer sometimes. When that happens, it means a planet is passing in front of the star, like a mini eclipse.

Kepler doesn’t just look, it takes pictures every few minutes. If a planet is going around its star, Kepler notices the light change each time the planet goes by. This helps scientists find out how big the planet might be and how far away it is from its star.

It's like having a special camera that can see things too tiny for our eyes, but in space!