News tagged with kepler telescope
Earth's sister in the crosshairs
Earth’s sister is out there, somewhere, and scientists searching for planets that may support life believe they are closing in on finding just that.
Apr 20, 2012 |
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NASA extends Kepler, Spitzer, Planck missions
(Phys.Org) -- NASA is extending three missions affiliated with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. -- Kepler, the Spitzer Space Telescope and the U.S. portion of the European Space Agency's ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 06, 2012 |
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Analysis of the First Kepler SETI Observations
As the Kepler space telescope begins finding its first Earth-sized exoplanets, with the ultimate goal of finding ones that are actually Earth-like, it would seem natural that the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial ...
Jan 09, 2012 |
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Wanted: Habitable moons
As the Kepler space telescope continues to search for potentially habitable planets, it also may reveal moons that could host life. Three new simulations will help astronomers identify rocky satellites that ...
Jan 06, 2012 |
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Caltech-led team of astronomers finds 18 new planets
Discoveries of new planets just keep coming and coming. Take, for instance, the 18 recently found by a team of astronomers led by scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
Dec 02, 2011 |
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Kepler space telescope mission extension proposal
Some potentially good news for exoplanet fans, and Kepler fans in particular – Kepler scientists are asking for a mission extension and seem reasonably confident they will get it. Otherwise, funding is ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 03, 2011 |
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NASA releases new interactive space communications game
NASA has released an interactive, educational video game called NetworKing that depicts how the Space Communication and Navigation (SCaN) network operates. The release of the video game coincides with the close of World Space ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 12, 2011 |
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Once again, Kepler is reshaping our understanding of planets
This has been a good year for Kepler, NASA's planet-hunting satellite telescope.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 19, 2011 |
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Rocky planets could have been born as gas giants
When NASA announced the discovery of over 1,200 new potential planets spotted by the Kepler Space Telescope, almost a quarter of them were thought to be Super-Earths. Now, new research suggests that these ...
Sep 16, 2011 |
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How to learn a star's true age
(PhysOrg.com) -- For many movie stars, their age is a well-kept secret. In space, the same is true of the actual stars. Like our Sun, most stars look almost the same for most of their lives. So how can we ...
May 24, 2011 |
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SETI survey focuses on Kepler's top Earth-like planets
(PhysOrg.com) -- UC Berkeley is searching for evidence of intelligent life on planets identified by the Kepler space telescope team as having Earth-like environments. This search for extraterrestrial intelligence ...
May 16, 2011 |
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Astronomers detect echoes from the depth of a red giant star
(PhysOrg.com) -- Today an international team of astronomers reports the discovery of waves inside a star that travel so deep that they reach the core. The discovery was published in the renowned journal Science, and wa ...
Mar 18, 2011 |
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Exoplanetary systems
(PhysOrg.com) -- There are now about fifty stars known with more than one orbiting planet - they are the exoplanetary equivalents of the solar system. These stellar families are critical to astronomers piecing ...
Jan 07, 2011 |
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NASA's Kepler Mission changing how astronomers study distant stars
The quantity and quality of data coming back from NASA's Kepler Mission is changing how astronomers study stars, said Iowa State University's Steve Kawaler.
Oct 26, 2010 |
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Life beyond Earth 'within our grasp', astronomer says
With a bit of luck and a new space telescope, within five years we could know the answer to a question that humanity has pondered for millennia: Is there life beyond Earth?
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 17, 2010 |
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