- Cosmic 'Death Star' Destroying A Planet
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... 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
- Could Another (small) Satellite Orbit The International Space Station?
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... and more quickly than the ISS when closer to the Earth (by Kepler's "equal areas in equal times"), it will seem to follow a retrograde ...
Article - Robert Walker - Oct 15 2015 - 12:19pm - 0 attachments
- Kepler 452b - Things That Could Go Wrong With Habitability & If It Is - Could We Detect Intelligent Life There?
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... Earth" for astronomers who know the capabilities of Kepler, is rather different from what most of the general public would think of when you say "another Earth". Kepler is great for getting an idea of what proportion of stars have planets, ...
Article - Robert Walker - Jul 25 2015 - 5:43am - 0 attachments
- It's Misleading To Compare Exoplanet Kepler-452b To Earth
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... Venus, or something entirely different. The planet, Kepler-452b, was detected by the Kepler telescope , which looks for small dips in a star’s brightness as ...
Article - The Conversation - Jul 24 2015 - 9:21pm - 0 attachments
- The Moon Illusion - It Looks Bigger Near The Horizon Because You Can't Handle It Otherwise
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... between the conscious and subconscious mind, because, as Kepler said, “Perception does not belong to optics but to the study of the ...
Cool Link - Hank Campbell - May 30 2015 - 10:30am - 0 attachments
- How To Prepare Weather Forecasts For Exoplanets
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... Belfast. Using sensitive observations from the Kepler space telescope, the researchers have uncovered evidence of daily ... the planets, the researchers saw excess brightness in the Kepler data that corresponds to when the morning side is visible. For the other ...
Article - News Staff - May 17 2015 - 4:49pm - 0 attachments
- Young Earth Creationism Ignores Basic Geology - And Christian Theology
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In the ongoing conflict between science and young Earth creationism, evolution is usually a main point of contention. The idea that all life on Earth evolved from a common ancestor is a major problem for young Earth creationists. As a geologist, ...
Article - The Conversation - Apr 28 2015 - 12:00pm - 0 attachments
- Ground And Space Telescope Microlensing Combine To Find Distant Planet
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... complements other planet-hunting tools, such as NASA's Kepler mission, which has found more than 1,000 planets closer to home. But it ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 14 2015 - 3:29pm - 0 attachments
- Do You Think Science And Religion Are In Conflict? You Are On One Fringe Or Another
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... by comparison. Young Earth people can at least claim Kepler for their side , while all the anti-gluten people have is that some guy ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 20 2015 - 1:09pm - 0 attachments
- ESA’s CHEOPS Satellite: The Pharaoh of Exoplanet Hunting
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... of multiple and duper earth massed planets, well before Kepler did this. Some proportions of these are expected to transit their host ... planets maybe discovered this way, there's a handful from Kepler if that.” Knowing where to look and at what time to observe, ...
Blog Post - Tomasz Nowakowski - Mar 19 2015 - 5:23pm - 0 attachments
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