At Least One in Six Stars Has an Earth-Sized Planet “The quest for a twin Earth is heating up. Using NASA’s Kepler spacecraft, astronomers are beginning to find Earth-sized planets […]
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Kepler Has Identified 2,300 Extrasolar Planet Candidates
Planetary Candidates Observed by Kepler, III: Analysis of the First 16 Months of Data “New transiting planet candidates are identified in sixteen months (May 2009 – September 2010) of data […]
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Kepler Finds Two Candidate SETI Signals – Or Not?
First Look at Kepler SETI Candidate Signals “The signals below are undoubtedly examples of terrestrial radio frequency interference (RFI). … These signals look similar to what we think might be […]
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NASA Discovers First Earth-size Planets Beyond Our Solar System “NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered the first Earth-size planets orbiting a sun-like star outside our solar system. The planets, called Kepler-20e […]
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Kepler Finds Planet in Habitable Zone of Sunlike Star (With Video)
NASA’s Kepler Confirms Its First Planet in Habitable Zone of Sun-Like Star “NASA’s Kepler mission has confirmed its first planet in the “habitable zone,” the region where liquid water could […]
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Planet Hunters Finds Extrasolar Planets Via Crowdsourced Effort – Planet Hunters: The First Two Planet Candidates Identified by the Public using the Kepler Public Archive Data, MNRAS – From the […]
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Found Tatooine, We Have
From Star Wars to Science Fact: Tatooine-like Planet Discovered, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics “Although cold and gaseous rather than a desert world, the newfound planet Kepler-16b is still the closest […]
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Kepler Continues to Deliver
Kepler’s Astounding Haul of Multiplanet Systems, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics “In particular, the Kepler systems with multiple planets are much flatter than our solar system. They have to be for […]
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Kepler Gets Back To Work
Kepler Mission Manager Update – Kepler Returns to Science “After a safe mode event that lasted 144 hours, NASA’s Kepler spacecraft returned to science data collection at 2:45 p.m. EDT […]
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Kepler Goes Into Safe Mode – Recovery Under Way
Kepler Mission Manager Update – Safe Mode Event March 15, 2011 “Shortly after the safe mode entry, the team analyzed the spacecraft data and determined all subsystems remained healthy. During […]