The Occurrence Rate of Earth Analog Planets Orbiting Sunlike Stars, NASA JPL via arXiv.org “Kepler is a space telescope that searches Sun-like stars for planets. Its major goal is to […]
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Looking at the Sky of one of Kepler's Planets
What Do Kepler’s Worlds Look Like – From The Surface? What might the sky look like on one of these worlds that Kepler has discovered? Planetary scientist and space artist […]
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Multiple Planets in Habitable Zones Discovered By Kepler
NASA Finds Earth-size Planet Candidates in the Habitable Zone “The findings increase the number of planet candidates identified by Kepler to-date to 1,235. Of these, 68 are approximately Earth-size; 288 […]
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Kepler-11 Has Six Small Planets
Six Small Planets Orbiting a Sun-like Star Amaze Astronomers, UCSC “A remarkable planetary system discovered by NASA’s Kepler mission has six planets around a Sun-like star, including five small planets […]
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Kepler Has Found More Planets
NASA To Announce New Planetary Discoveries by Kepler “NASA will host a news briefing at 1 p.m. EST, Wednesday, Feb. 2, to announce the Kepler mission’s latest findings about planets […]
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Rocky Planet Discovered by Kepler
Kepler Mission Discovers its First Rocky Planet “NASA’s Kepler mission confirmed the discovery of its first rocky planet, named Kepler-10b. Measuring 1.4 times the size of Earth, it is the […]
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Kepler Spacecraft Enters Safe Mode
Kepler Goes Into Safe Mode “On Dec. 22, 2010, Kepler experienced a safe mode event. A safe mode is a self-protective measure that the spacecraft takes when something unexpected occurs. […]
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Anyone Can Now Search for Extrasolar Planets
Citizen Scientists Join Search for Earth-like Planets, Yale University “Planet Hunters, which is the latest in the Zooniverse citizen science project collection, will ask users to help analyze data taken […]
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Kepler Team Moves Up Next Data Release Date
Announcement of Earlier Kepler Data Release–from June 2011 to 1 February 2011 “The Kepler project wishes to inform the community that it is moving the next data release date (originally […]
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Kepler Observes Starquakes
NASA’S Kepler Spacecraft Takes Pulse Of Distant Stars “An international cadre of scientists that used data from NASA’s Kepler spacecraft announced Tuesday the detection of stellar oscillations, or “starquakes,” that […]