The Kepler Asteroseismic Investigation: Scientific goals and the first results “So far data have been available from the first 7 month of the mission containing a total of 2937 targets […]
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Kepler Withholds Data While NASA Struggles To Be Relevant
Exoplanets: Show me the data!, Nature “And according to NASA Watch, the NASA astrophysics division is prohibiting discussion of the new 306 candidate planets until they are confirmed, even though […]
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Kepler Data Dump – And NASA Ignores it (Update)
Keith’s 6:08 pm EDT note: Surprise surprise, NASA just issued this press release at 6:08 pm EDT “NASA Releases Kepler Data On Potential Extrasolar Planets” even though the papers have […]
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Kepler Delivers
Kepler Space Telescope Discovers Five Exoplanets “NASA’s Kepler space telescope, designed to find Earth-size planets in the habitable zone of sun-like stars, has discovered its first five new exoplanets, or […]