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NASA space telescope spots wobbly planet
http://www.yttwebzine.com/tomorrow/2014/02/04/81509/wobby_planet_spotted
02/04/2014 - 11:52 – by NASA's planet-hunting Kepler space telescope.      The planet, designated Kepler-413b ... are amazed that this far-off planet is precessing on a human timescale.      Kepler 413-b is located ... from Earth, the wobbling orbit moves up and down continuously.      Kepler finds planets by noticing ...
Last updated 9 years 16 weeks ago
NASA report prompts talk of extraterrestrial life
http://www.yttwebzine.com/tomorrow/2013/11/10/76752/report_prompts_talk_of_alien_life
11/10/2013 - 20:00 – conference Nov. 4, when scientists announced that an analysis of Kepler Space Telescope data showed that 1-in ... .      While the Kepler is no longer operational, it provided four years of data for scientists by measuring ... shows.   The Kepler results could be game changing for NASA, notes Lane Wallace of The Atlantic ...
Last updated 9 years 18 weeks ago
Earth-like planets common
http://www.yttwebzine.com/tomorrow/2013/11/04/76324/earth_like_planets_common
11/04/2013 - 16:00 – analysis of Kepler Space Telescope data. About 70 percent of the stars observed by Kepler show planets ... analysis of Kepler data by Erik Petigura, a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Berkeley ... zone.        “We’re finding with Kepler that planets seem to be the rule rather than the exception ...
Last updated 9 years 24 weeks ago
NASA marks verification of 1,000th planet
http://www.yttwebzine.com/tomorrow/2015/01/06/103989/nasa_adds_to_planet_count
01/06/2015 - 11:55 – Using data from NASA's Kepler telescope, researchers have verified more planets ... by NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, the space agency reports.       The Kepler telescope ... candidates spotted by the planet-hunting telescope are, in fact, planets.      The Kepler team has added 554 ...
Last updated 9 years 15 weeks ago
The 'Interstellar' question: Could we live there?
http://www.yttwebzine.com/tomorrow/2014/11/03/99967/interstellar_question_can_we_find_another_planet
11/03/2014 - 20:00Kepler 22b. Image: NASA. YT&Twebzine The movie Interstellar paints a dark premise ... from the Kepler Space Telescope. Launched in 2009, Kepler searched the Milky Way for planets in the ... for water.      The Kepler mission took its name from Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), the astronomer ...
Last updated 9 years 24 weeks ago
Rocky worlds discovered orbiting distant star
http://www.yttwebzine.com/tomorrow/2016/07/20/140171/planets_could_support_life
07/20/2016 - 12:29 – planets outside our solar system.     The findings were made using images from the Kepler space ... . The Kepler observatory detected the planets by noticing the dimming of light when a planet traveled in ... front of its star. The authors point out that Kepler has discovered the majority of all known exoplanets ...
Last updated 7 years 39 weeks ago
Jupiter had star turn in solar system's formation
http://www.yttwebzine.com/tomorrow/2015/03/25/109545/jupiter_moved_toward_sun
03/25/2015 - 07:00 – -compact systems where planets whip swiftly around a star in days or months. Researchers offer the Kepler ... -11 system as an example. That solar system, named for NASA’s Kepler space telescope, was described by ... mission, another project using the Kepler space telescope.      Contact us ...
Last updated 9 years 4 weeks ago
Planet in habitable zone orbits sunlike star
http://www.yttwebzine.com/tomorrow/2015/07/23/118720/planet_like_earth
07/23/2015 - 10:00 – orbits a star similar to our sun. The planet, found through research using the Kepler space observatory ... smaller than the sun,” said Jon Jenkins, Kepler data analysis lead at NASA's Ames Research Center in ... known as Kepler 452b, named for the Kepler space observatory used to find it.     The planet orbits its ...
Last updated 8 years 39 weeks ago
In Science: 15 new planets confirmed
http://www.yttwebzine.com/2018/03/13/155503/super_earth_could_have_water
03/13/2018 - 09:32 – from NASA’s Kepler spacecraft, along with ground-based telescopes, including the Subaru Telescope in ... Hawaii and the Nordic Optical Telescope in Spain. The Kepler space telescope, launched in 2009, was ...
Last updated 6 years 6 weeks ago
New planet spotted by repurposed spacecraft
http://www.yttwebzine.com/tomorrow/2014/12/18/103310/new_planet_spotted_by_kepler
12/18/2014 - 19:22 – Reports    A graduate student using data from the Kepler spacecraft has identified a new ... precision, the spacecraft must hold steady. In May 2013, data collection during Kepler's extended prime ...
Last updated 9 years 18 weeks ago