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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Looking For A Sister Earth At Alpha Centauri (Update)
BoldlyGo Institute and NASA Sign Space Act Agreement for Joint Cooperation on Project Blue Mission “The Space Act Agreement is non-reimbursable, with no exchange of funds between NASA and BoldlyGo. […]
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Kepler Reveals New Worlds
NASA Releases Kepler Survey Catalog with Hundreds of New Planet Candidates “NASA’s Kepler space telescope team has released a mission catalog of planet candidates that introduces 219 new planet candidates, […]
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Temperate Earth-Sized Planets Found in Extraordinarily Rich Planetary System TRAPPIST-1
Temperate Earth-Sized Planets Found in Extraordinarily Rich Planetary System TRAPPIST-1 , ESO “Astronomers have found a system of seven Earth-sized planets just 40 light-years away. Using ground and space telescopes, […]
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Earth-Mass Planet Orbits Proxima Centauri
Earth-mass Planet Found In The Habitable Zone Of Proxima Centauri, ESO “Astronomers using ESO telescopes and other facilities have found clear evidence of a planet orbiting the closest star to […]
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Kepler Has Found 1,284 New Planets
Keith’s note: Just in case you missed this post last Wednesday. NASA to Announce Latest Kepler Discoveries During Media Teleconference “NASA will host a news teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT […]
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Astronomers Frown On Extrasolar Planet Naming Contest
(Mostly) Thumbs Down on ExoNames, ManyWorlds “One of the co-discoverers of HD 149026 b is Debra Fischer, now a professor of astronomy at Yale University. Asked her view of the […]
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Kepler Finds Earth-Sized Worlds In Habitable Zones
NASA Media Teleconference to Announce Latest Kepler Discoveries “NASA will host a news teleconference at 9 a.m. PDT (12 p.m. EDT) Thursday, July 23 to announce new discoveries made by […]
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Finding Tatooine Just Got A Little Easier
Earth-like Tatooines From Star Wars May Be Common “Luke Skywalker’s home in “Star Wars” is the desert planet Tatooine, with twin sunsets because it orbits two stars. So far, only […]
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Hacked Kepler Continues to Amaze
Sun’s stroke keeps Kepler online, Nature “Wiemer had fashioned a crutch for Kepler using the only resource available: sunlight. Positioned so that its long side faces the Sun, the spacecraft […]