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World Did NOT End On 29th July! AWFUL "Silly Season" Story - Journalists Please Be More Responsible

... within larger ones to get the numbers right. But then Kepler discovered that the planets moved in ellipses rather than circles around ...

Article - Robert Walker - Oct 28 2016 - 2:59pm - 0 attachments

Doomsday Debunked - Nibiru Is Nuts - What About Nuclear War, Asteroid Impacts, Runaway Warming,...

... kilometers thick over New York and London. Kepler Search Space  - this is an artist’s impression to show the direction in which the Kepler mission did an intensive search for exoplanets by looking for dips in ...

Article - Robert Walker - Dec 24 2016 - 9:36am - 0 attachments

Dear young, capable, eager minds ...

... to judge and/or compare that with that what Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Descartes and Newton have discovered.  And, one should ... wrong all that is. But AFTER acquainting with Copernicus-Kepler-Galileo-Descartes-Newton discoveries. Because then it would be enough to ...

Zoran Dimić - Nov 20 2016 - 9:20am - 0 attachments

KIC 8462852 models that fit Kepler observations quite well

... The largest drop has its opacity peak on day 1519 of the Kepler mission, and is also known as the D1500 drop. It is considerably ... D. Simon, 2016. KIC 8462852 Faded Throughout the Kepler Mission. arXiv:1608.01316. ...

Blog Post - Jose S - Sep 16 2016 - 9:20am - 0 attachments

What Happens When You Steam A Planet?

... to the character and evolution of the early Earth. The Kepler satellite has detected more than 100 hot, rocky planets orbiting close ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 28 2016 - 7:34pm - 0 attachments

More Than 1,200 New Planets Confirmed Using New Technique For Verifying Kepler Data

... objects observed outside Earth's solar system by NASA's Kepler spacecraft are indeed planets. Reported in The Astrophysical Journal ... than doubles the number of confirmed planets discovered by Kepler so far to more than 2,300. The researchers' discovery hinges on a ...

Article - News Staff - May 11 2016 - 1:18pm - 0 attachments

Sorry Galileo, Coastal Birds Use Tides And Moon Phases

... of his career he was derided by other scientists. Both Kepler and mathematics knew Galileo was wrong about the moon, for example, but ...

Article - News Staff - May 4 2016 - 7:59am - 0 attachments

Why Didn't ETs, Or Self Replicating Machines, Colonize Our Solar System Millions Of Years Ago?

... makes this paradox more acute is the recent discovery by Kepler that planets can form around old stars .  The first stars in ... the paradox, when it is combined with the evidence from Kepler that there were planets around the older population II stars. These ...

Blog Post - Robert Walker - Jan 19 2014 - 11:06am - 0 attachments

Hot Super-Earths Stripped By Host Stars: 'Cooked' Planets Shrink Due To Radiation

... the University of Birmingham have used data from the NASA Kepler space telescope to discover a class of extrasolar planets whose ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 11 2016 - 8:49am - 0 attachments

The real reason why the KIC 8462852 comet hypothesis is dead

... family model that attempts to explain at least some of the Kepler data (Bodman & Quillen, 2015). The key takeaway from the ...

Blog Post - Jose S - Mar 5 2016 - 3:25pm - 0 attachments