Keith’s note: NASA issued a release today about Habitable Worlds Observatory tech development contracts. Once again, I am baffled why news involving the search for habitable worlds – a core […]
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NASA Ignores Its Own Discoveries (Update)
Keith’s 18 April later update: NASA PAO finally started to post updates 24-36 hours after the rest of the world was reading about these discoveries everywhere except at NASA. Keith’s […]
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NASAWatch on Bloomberg: Astrobiology and Budgets
Keith’s note: I was just on Bloomberg Radio/YouTube talking about the recent (possible) biosignature news of exoplanet K2-18 b and Astrobiology, while back on Earth, NASA’s budget cuts loom and […]
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Apples, Oranges, And Exoplanets
Keith’s note: I was on Al Jazeera Arabic TV tonight talking about recent exoplanet discoveries, life in the universe, etc. Since I was speaking through an interpreter (I used to […]
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Kepler Provides An Estimate Of Eta_Earth*
The Occurrence of Rocky Habitable Zone Planets Around Solar-Like Stars from Kepler Data “We present occurrence rates for rocky planets in the habitable zones (HZ) of main-sequence dwarf stars based […]
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Getting Serious About Astrobiology
Breakthrough Watch and European Southern Observatory Achieve First Light on Upgraded Planet-finding Instrument “Pete Worden, Executive Director of the Breakthrough Initiatives, said: “We’re delighted to collaborate with the ESO in […]
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Kepler Planet Hunting Mission Ends
FWIW @NASAKepler has discovered 2,681 confirmed exoplanets and 2,899 candidate exoplanets. Assuming that that they're all confirmed that's 5,580 planets at a cost $125,448.03 each. pic.twitter.com/p84pT10x29 — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) […]
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More Kepler Discoveries Announced
NASA Media Telecon to Announce Latest Kepler Discoveries, 26 Feb. “NASA will host a news teleconference at 1 p.m. EST (18:00 UTC), Wednesday, Feb. 26, to announce new discoveries made […]
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NASA Finds A Way To Make Stunning News Boring
The Numbers Are Astronomical, Seth Shostak, Huffington Post “So check out the Milky Way next time you’re outside the glare of city lights, and ruminate on the thought that at […]