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Milestone in the search for earth-like exoplanets: Kepler-10b
A major milestone has been achieved by the Kepler Spacecraft- the smallest exoplanet found thus far. Kepler-10b is a small, dense, rocky world only 1.4 times the size of earth. It’s not earth-like,...
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Kepler finds potentially habitable exoplanet 2.4x size of earth
Should’ve gotten to posting this earlier today but I was waaay too busy. Very exciting news in the science world today- NASA’s Kepler mission has been very busy lately, finding exoplanets left and...
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Kepler finds earth-sized alien planets/Some amazing volcano photos
Credit: NASA The Kepler team at NASA announced yet another exciting discovery yesterday: the first confirmed earth-size alien planets, Kepler 20f and 20e. The mission has found other exoplanets that...
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SETI find interesting signals from Kepler planets, but it’s NOT aliens.
So there has been some excitement and confusion lately over a signal discovered by SETI researchers after they aimed one of their radio telescopes toward “objects of interest” discovered by the Kepler...
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Kepler Mission (and most astrophysics missions) extended until 2016!
Some fantastic news from NASA today: The astoundingly successful and productive Kepler Mission has been extended through 2016! This is a huge relief for space nerds like me who eagerly watch science...
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Exoplanets: xkcd scores a home run
I’ve written a lot about exoplanets, planet-hunting missions such as Kepler, and various other topics related to the search for other worlds in the universe. Never have I seen any one image that could...
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Kepler finds exoplanet that could have a moon like the Forest Moon of Endor
Artist interpretation of Kepler 47c. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle It’s been a while since we had any juicy exoplanet news. That changed yesterday as a new breakthrough was announced in exoplanet...
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Science Roundup: Universe doomed to become boring/Tiniest exoplanet/Men on...
Credit: CERN/NASA/Ian O’Niel Here’s a quick roundup of some interesting stories and headlines that have popped up in the science world recently: Based on new calculations using information from the...
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Space & Science Roundup: New exoplanets and some cool videos from the ISS
It’s been way too long since I last posted anything science-related. Photographing weddings, playing in two bands, and working a day job has eaten up all of my spare time lately! But I’ve found enough...
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Bad news for the Kepler Mission and exoplanet science
Credit: NASA/Kepler Some sad news from NASA: the immensely successful Kepler Mission in danger. The space-based planet hunting telescope has suffered another malfunction with one of its reaction...
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