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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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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Artificial Intelligence is Now Helping Kepler Find Planets
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 […]
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Kepler on the Basketball Court
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 […]
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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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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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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 […]
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Big Kepler News Today: Earth Sized Planet – Possibly With Liquid Water
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 […]
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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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Now The Shutdown Is to Blame for Kepler Meeting Problems
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 […]