... Kepler s Suns and Planets . ... To find them, Kepler monitors a rich star field to identify planetary transits by the slight dimming of starlight caused by a planet crossing the face of its parent star. In this remarkable illustration , all of Kepler's planet candidates are shown in transit with their parent stars ordered by size from top left to bottom right. ... Publications with keywords: extrasolar planet - kepler - transit . Publications with words: extrasolar planet - kepler - transit . ...