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Seasons On Mars - How Do They Compare With Earth?

... warmer its southern winter. It's also shorter because by Kepler's second law of equal areas swept out in equal times - when closer to ...

Article - Robert Walker - Mar 4 2016 - 11:04am - 0 attachments

Rotational Clock For Stars Needs Recalibration

... we can get the calibrations correct." Data from the Kepler spacecraft now make it possible to test the calibrations of ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 10 2016 - 6:28pm - 0 attachments

Asteroseismology Shows Strong Magnetic Fields In Majority Of Stars

... not rare as previously thought, using data from NASA's Kepler mission. The team found that stars only slightly more massive than ... a large number of evolved versions of our Sun observed by Kepler. More than 700 of these so-called red giants were found to show the ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 4 2016 - 2:12pm - 0 attachments

The Science Of The Star Of Bethlehem

... sky. Great Conjunction from Kepler’s book De Stella Nova. Johannes Kepler Sometimes, when the Sun, Earth, Jupiter and Saturn are ...

Article - The Conversation - Dec 24 2015 - 7:30am - 0 attachments

Ancient Greek attitudes today

... the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, had proved the Kepler conjecture, showing that the way greengrocers stack oranges is the most ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Dec 12 2015 - 10:18am - 0 attachments

SETI Listens: KIC 8462852 Says Nothing. The Odds of Aliens Go Down.

... Using the criteria I formulated for stating that Kepler 186 f had a 50/50 chance on this star the graphic would look like this. ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Nov 6 2015 - 6:15pm - 0 attachments

Spirals In Dust Around Young Stars May Betray Presence Of Massive Planets

... in 1995. Thanks to ground-based telescopes and NASA's Kepler mission, a few thousand exoplanets have been cataloged to date. But ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 2 2015 - 12:04am - 0 attachments

The Humps and Bumps of KIC 8462852 Dyson Sphere or Odd Duck?

... Arecibo sized dish from a star 500 light years away like Kepler 186F.  Etc.  I stand by my finding regarding Kepler 186F you can see the data that was available to me and the Matlab code I ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Oct 21 2015 - 3:14am - 0 attachments

The Alleged Perversion of Geoff Marcy and Sexual Harassment.

... said star.   He was co-investigator on the Kepler mission which has found numerous exoplanets by the transit method. ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Oct 15 2015 - 2:13pm - 0 attachments

Cosmic 'Death Star' Destroying A Planet

... The evidence for this unique system came from NASA's Kepler K2 mission, which monitors stars for a dip in brightness that occurs ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 21 2015 - 6:12pm - 0 attachments