The sun isn't normal. The Kepler Space Telescope learned the hard way

Head to https://linode.com/scishow to get a $100 60-day credit on a new Linode account. Linode offers simple, affordable, and accessible Linux cloud solutions and services. The Kepler mission did a great job at showing just how abundant planets are beyond our solar system, but its hunt for Earth 2.0 orbiting Sun 2.0 was a lot less successful. That's partly because the scientists who designed the telescope assumed our Sun was a lot more typical of a star than it turned out to be. Hosted by: Stefan Chin (he/him) ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Matt Curls, Alisa Sherbow, Dr. Melvin Sanicas, Harrison Mills, Adam Brainard, Chris Peters, charles george, Piya Shedden, Alex Hackman, Christopher R, Boucher, Jeffrey Mckishen, Ash, Silas Emrys, Eric Jensen, Kevin Bealer, Jason A Saslow, Tom Mosner, Tomás Lagos González, Jacob, Christoph Schwanke, Sam Lutfi, Bryan Cloer ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? SciShow Tangents Podcast: https://scishow-tangents.simplecast.com/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishowFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow #SciShow #science #education #learning #complexly ---------- Sources: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0067-0049/197/1/6 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0004-6256/150/4/133 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/128/965/075002/meta https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/2022/09/aa41640-21.pdf https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/2020/04/aa37412-19.pdf https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.1304196111 https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/465/2/1308/2417497 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/30/science/nasa-kepler-exoplanet.html https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/docs/counts_detail.html https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/exoplanet-catalog/1599/kepler-22b/ http://www.as.utexas.edu/astronomy/education/spring02/scalo/heath.pdf Image Sources: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kepler_space_telescope_seen_fom_downside.jpg https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/resources/1032/kepler-launch-and-deployment-complete/ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Milky_Way-100_billion_stars.jpg https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12034 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_slice_of_Sagittarius.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Morgan-Keenan_spectral_classification.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Today%27s_Sun_with_active_region_2628_(32515125665).png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HZ-by-size.jpeg https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/exoplanet-alien-habitable-planet-rear-closeup-with-red-stock-footage/1382692020 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12034 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12034 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:329161main_fullFFIHot300.png https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/looking-into-space-blue-nebula-starfield-stock-footage/1413902472 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Earth_and_Moon_Transit_from_Mars_2084.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NASA_SDO_multispectral_view_of_the_Sun,_September_2011.ogv https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SDO_zoom_out_prominence_20100330.ogv https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PIA21202_Small_Surf.ogv https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KOI-72b.jpg https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/resources/1002/kepler-beauty-shot/ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:11742_SDO-Year_5_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.webm https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Solar_Sail_(14914129324).jpg https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/flying-through-stars-and-nebula-stock-footage/475338912 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:11742_SDO-Year_5_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.webm https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kepler-22_diagram.jpg https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/red-alien-planet-in-outer-space-stock-footage/1085215566 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Exoplanet_Discoveries_2017-12-14.jpg https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/flying-through-stars-and-nebula-stock-footage/1448547406 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KeplerSpaceTelescope_-Retirement-ArtistConcept-20181030.jpg https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2022/05/Artist_s_impression_of_Plato https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Plato_factsheet