Tag: kepler
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#MorningMonarchy: December 12, 2017
Bitcoin ballyhoo, interstellar objects and prescription video games + this day in history w/the first transatlantic radio transmission and our song of the day by Trevor Something on your Morning Monarchy for December 12, 2017.
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#MorningMonarchy: April 12, 2016
Laptop tape, wi-spy and touching robots + this day in history w/Civil War and our song of the day by Starwalker on your Morning Monarchy for April 12, 2016.
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NASA Finds More Earth-like Planets Outside Solar System
from japantimes.com: More planets that are near twins to Earth have been found outside our solar system – tantalizing worlds that could host extraterrestrial life. Astronomers announced Tuesday that, depending on definitions, they have confirmed three or four more planets that are about the same size as Earth and are in the not-too-hot, not-too-cold “Goldilocks…
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‘Godzilla of Earths’ Identified
from bbc.com: There is a new class of planet out there that astronomers are calling the “mega-Earth”. It is an object with a hard surface like our own world but much, much bigger. The necessity for the new designation follows the discovery of a planet which has a mass some 17 times that of Earth.…
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NASA Kepler Telescope Discovers 715 New Planets
from smh.com.au: NASA has announced a torrent of new planet discoveries, hailing a “bonanza” of 715 worlds now known outside the solar system thanks to the Kepler space telescope’s planet-hunting mission. A new method for verifying potential planets led to the volume of new discoveries from Kepler, which aims to help humans search for other…
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One in five suns has habitable world
from bbc.co.uk: Astronomers have estimated how many of the 100 billion stars in our galaxy hosts a potentially habitable planet. Using data from Nasa’s Kepler space telescope, they argue that one in five stars like the Sun hosts an Earth-sized world located in the “habitable zone”. This zone is the region around a star where…
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Kepler: A Unique Space Telescope
The Kepler Space Telescope makes news with announcements of habitable exo-planets as NASA reports a total of 122 confirmed planets.
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12/22 defcon: planets, tweets & patents
2 earth-size planets discovered orbiting star* darpa’s new spy satellite could provide real-time video from anywhere on earth* taliban, US military waging war via twitter: report* twitter use by shabab in somalia incites US* apple wins partial victory on patent claim over android*