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In the process of revising a chapter of my book, I found a clip I would like to share here, as it contains an analogy I cooked up and which I find nice enough to be proud of. Well, two analogies, as you'll soon find out; here I am speaking of the cat we ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 11 2014 - 8:39am - 0 attachments

... researcher. The planetary systems detected by NASA's Kepler mission are usually hundreds of light years away. In contrast, Kapteyn's ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 3 2014 - 11:11pm - 0 attachments

... ground between those two is missing locally, NASA's Kepler mission has discovered that these types of planets are very common ... three distinct groups defined by their compositions. Kepler finds exoplanets using the transit method, looking for a star that dims ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 2 2014 - 12:08pm - 0 attachments

... Gerry Harp writes of a "secret" experiment involving Kepler 186-f.   The senior scientist look only for a tuning fork like ... with all it's context, note the date stamp and the Kepler 8120608 identifier.   This corresponds to ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - May 25 2014 - 1:16pm - 0 attachments

... super-Earth-mass planets. Recent observations by NASA's Kepler mission demonstrate that super-Earth-size planets are common around ...

Article - News Staff - May 9 2014 - 12:30am - 0 attachments

... There has been a lot of recent excitement over Kepler-186f: An Earth-Sized Planet In A Habitable Zone .   This is one of the latest discoveries by the Kepler Spacecraft , which searches for exoplanets by observing the dimming ...

Article - Robert H Olley - Apr 22 2014 - 2:08am - 0 attachments

Astronomers using NASA's Kepler Space Telescope report discovery of the first Earth-size planet orbiting ... the surface of an orbiting planet. The discovery of Kepler-186f confirms that planets the size of Earth exist in the habitable zone ... than Earth and understanding their makeup is challenging. Kepler-186f is more reminiscent of Earth. Notre Dame astrophysicist Justin ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 17 2014 - 2:58pm - 0 attachments

Long-time readers of this blog (are there any left ?) know me well since I often used to  write posts about personal matters here and in my previous sites. However, I am aware that readers come and go, and I also realize that lately I have not disclo ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 18 2014 - 3:59am - 0 attachments

... others might have missed in data from the planet-hunting Kepler Space Telescope when he saw something in the binary star system KOI-3278 ... other such star systems waiting to be discovered in the Kepler data. "If everyone's missed this one, then there could be many more ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 21 2014 - 7:53pm - 0 attachments

... on a sober reading of NASA'S press release .   Kepler-186f is a star approximately 500 light years away in the Kepler 186 system.  Kepler 186 is a red dwarf, and 186f is the fifth ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Apr 20 2014 - 2:20am - 0 attachments