Posts Tagged ‘kepler’

Kepler’s Water Worlds

Friday, April 19th, 2013
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Some juicy exoplanet news!

Exoplanet or White Dwarf

Tuesday, April 9th, 2013
white dwarf, exoplanet, kepler, wobble, transit, radial velocity, gravitational lensing, binary star, red dwarf

When is an exoplanet not an exoplanet? When it’s a white dwarf…

SETIcon II Excitement

Monday, June 25th, 2012
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The SETI Institute put on an insightful conference in Santa Clara last weekend, June 22nd through 24th.

Universe Update, January 2012

Friday, January 20th, 2012
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Coming at you from the desk of the Director of the Morrison Planetarium, hand-picked stories in space and astronomy news.

Planets, Planets, Planets

Thursday, January 12th, 2012
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Reporting from day three of the American Astronomical Society meeting in Austin, Texas…

Friday Science News Round-up

Friday, December 2nd, 2011
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Reptilian embryos, C. elegans in space and exoplanets galore—get ready for a wild Friday science news round-up!

The Real Tatooine

Monday, September 19th, 2011
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NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered a Tatooine-like planet with two suns.

Magma Ocean & Weird Exoplanets

Friday, May 13th, 2011
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This week’s space news round-up includes a magma ocean, hot Jupiters and the hunt for Earth-like exoplanets…

Kepler’s Planets

Monday, March 21st, 2011
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The Kepler mission is already providing diverse data on exoplanets– might it also find life?

Science in 2010

Thursday, December 30th, 2010
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2010 was a roller coaster year for science news—think exoplanets, synthetic-life, arsenic-eating bacteria (or not!), earthquakes, volcanoes and of course, the Gulf oil spill.

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