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Kepler telescope looks at 156,000 stars, finds 1,100+ planet candidates, 54...
The following video discusses the discoveries of the Kepler mission so far: From the video description: NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered its first Earth-size planet candidates and its first...
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Space Music: Johannes Kepler has an Opera
American postmodern composer Philip Glass, circa 1985. (Leon Morris/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) I can’t say I expected my next Space Music post to revolve around an opera, but here we are. And yes, I...
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Kepler: Don’t Count Your Exoplanets Before They Hatch
Keep your fingers crossed for Kepler tonight. Here techs examine Kepler inside the Hazardous Processing Facility in Titusville, Fla. (Photo courtesy NASA/Tim Jacobs) As the countdown to the Kepler...
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Will our planet ever find love?
A recent episode of NPR’s “This American Life” briefly explored the nonexistent love lives of graduate school physics students. In fantastically nerdy fashion, the students created a mathematical...
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