News tagged with kepler
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Will Kepler find habitable moons?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Since the launch of the NASA Kepler Mission earlier this year, astronomers have been keenly awaiting the first detection of an Earth-like planet around another star. Now, in an echo of science ...
Sep 03, 2009 |
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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 ...
Aug 06, 2009 |
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Nanoscale zipper cavity responds to single photons of light
Physicists at the California Institute of Technology have developed a nanoscale device that can be used for force detection, optical communication, and more. The device exploits the mechanical properties of ...
Jun 04, 2009 |
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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 ...
May 26, 2009 |
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Let the Planet Hunt Begin
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Kepler spacecraft has begun its search for other Earth-like worlds. The mission, which launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on March 6, will spend the next three-and-a-half years staring ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 13, 2009 |
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Kepler Captures First Views of Planet-Hunting Territory
NASA's Kepler mission has taken its first images of the star-rich sky where it will soon begin hunting for planets like Earth.
Apr 16, 2009 |
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Scientist to 'refine' size of Universe with Kepler
(PhysOrg.com) -- An astronomer at the University of St Andrews will use a powerful planet-hunting telescope to find out the true size of the Universe.
Apr 13, 2009 |
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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
Apr 08, 2009 |
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Adventures in the 'Goldilocks zone'
When NASA's Kepler telescope rocketed into the night sky last week, two Berkeley astronomers watching its fading contrail were hoping that the telescope will reveal Earth's — and humanity's — place in the ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 12, 2009 |
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Innovative avionics enable search for habitable planets
The search for habitable planets continues with the March 6 launch of the Kepler spacecraft, the latest in NASA's series of low cost, highly focused Discovery missions. Kepler, built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 09, 2009 |
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Kepler Set to Launch Tonight on Planet Finding Mission
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Kepler spacecraft and its Delta II rocket are "go" for a launch tonight that is expected to light up the sky along Florida's Space Coast at 10:49 p.m. EST as the rocket lifts off from ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 06, 2009 |
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With March 6 Kepler launch, work begins for Berkeley astronomers
(PhysOrg.com) -- When NASA's Kepler telescope rockets into the night sky on Friday, March 6, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, two University of California, Berkeley, astronomers - key members ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 04, 2009 |
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CU-Boulder students to be at controls for NASA planet-hunting mission
University of Colorado at Boulder students will be at the controls of one of NASA's most intriguing missions in recent years following the scheduled March 5 launch of the Kepler spacecraft to hunt down Earth-like ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 19, 2009 |
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Kepler Planet Finding Mission Set for March 5 Launch
NASA's Kepler spacecraft is on its way to the launch pad and will soon begin a journey to search for worlds that could potentially host life.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 19, 2009 |
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