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 on the Kepler DR25 planet candidate catalog and Gaia-based stellar properties. … We estimate with 95% confidence that, on average, the nearest HZ planet around G and K dwarfs is about 6 pc away, and there are about 4 HZ […]
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) October 30, 2018 NASA Retires Kepler Space Telescope “After nine years in deep space collecting data that indicate our sky to be filled with billions of hidden planets – more planets even than stars – NASA’s Kepler space telescope has […]
Artificial Intelligence Used to Discover Eighth Planet Circling Distant Star “The discovery came about after researchers Christopher Shallue and Andrew Vanderburg and trained a computer to learn how to identify exoplanets in the light readings recorded by Kepler – the miniscule change in brightness captured when a planet passed in front of, or transited, a star. Inspired by the way neurons connect in the human brain, this artificial “neural network” […]
Great perspective, @spurs Coach Popovich, on the amazing news about 3,200 total planets from @NASAKepler https://t.co/VokUkrrOqI — Seth Statler (@SethStatler) May 16, 2016 Gregg Popovich reminds us that a lost game is nothing compared to NASA finding 1,200 habitable planets, USA Today “On Thursday night, the Spurs lost to the Thunder in Game 6 and were knocked out of the postseason. On Tuesday, NASA announced that it found 1,284 new […]
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 Tuesday, May 10 to announce the latest discoveries made by its planet-hunting mission, the Kepler Space Telescope. The briefing participants are: … Timothy Morton, associate research scholar at Princeton University in New Jersey …” False Positive Probabilities for all Keper […]
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 its planet-hunting mission, the Kepler Space Telescope. The teleconference audio and visuals will be streamed live at: http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio“ Press briefing graphics Kepler Finds 12 Earth-sized Worlds In Stellar Habitable Zones, SETI Institute “The new catalog includes 12 candidates that are […]
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 leans against the pressure created by the onslaught of photons and balances using its two good wheels. With this approach, the team hoped to get within a factor of ten of Kepler’s original performance — but with additional software refinements, […]
Earth-Size Planet Found that Might Hold Liquid Water, University of Michigan “In a dim and faraway solar system, astronomers have for the first time discovered a rocky, Earth-sized planet that might hold liquid water — a necessary ingredient for life as we know it.” New Rocky Planet May Have Liquid Water, SFSU “San Francisco State University astronomer Stephen Kane and an international team of researchers have announced the discovery of […]
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 by its planet-hunting mission, the Kepler Space Telescope.” Kepler Has Discovered 715 New Extrasolar Planets “NASA’s Kepler mission announced Wednesday the discovery of 715 new planets. These newly-verified worlds orbit 305 stars, revealing multiple-planet systems much like our own solar […]
Keith’s note: The following is being sent out by the Kepler SciCon organizers: “We have just learned that the efforts of NASA’s Ames Research Center to ensure that our Chinese astronomer colleagues will be able to attend the Second Kepler Science Conference have been halted by the fact these approvals must be entered into a computer system at NASA HQ in Washington DC. Because of the ongoing federal government shutdown, […]
