News tagged with kepler telescope

NASA Releases Kepler Data on Potential Extrasolar Planets

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Kepler Mission has released 43 days of science data on more than 156,000 stars. These stars are being monitored for subtle brightness changes as part of an ongoing search for Earth-like ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jun 16, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

The Kepler Mission

(PhysOrg.com) -- Since the first planet around another star (an "extrasolar planet") was discovered by SAO astronomers and others in 1989, over 450 extrasolar planets have been found. Their study now comprises a whole new ...

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created Apr 26, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Kepler Space Telescope Discovers its First Five Exoplanets

(PhysOrg.com) -- 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 planets beyond our solar system. ...

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created Jan 04, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (13) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Kepler Detects Atmosphere of Hot World

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's new exoplanet-hunting Kepler space telescope has detected the atmosphere of a known giant gas planet, demonstrating the telescope's extraordinary scientific capabilities. The discovery ...

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created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (32) | comments 5

Scientists Develop New Method to Find Alien Oceans, Earth-like Planets (w/Videos)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Since the early 1990s astronomers have discovered more than 300 planets orbiting stars other than our sun, nearly all of them gas giants like Jupiter. Powerful space telescopes, such as the ...

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created May 26, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 3

Dust Cover Jettisoned From NASA's Kepler Telescope

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers have successfully ejected the dust cover from NASA's Kepler telescope, a spaceborne mission soon to begin searching for worlds like Earth.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0


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