Archive for the ‘ Exoplanets ’ Category
On June 16th, Scientific American posted a quite amazing, quite historic story on its web site that went largely unnoticed by the Outside World. Outside the astronomy community that is; more specifically, outside the residents of the Wisteria Lane of the astronomy community that is interested in the hunt for and study of exo-planets – [ READ MORE ]
I went to bed the evening of May 13th exhausted from the long, intense campaign of commissioning the Kepler spacecraft. The long march started about a week after launch when we began to receive data from the photometer and needed to process it to verify that it was behaving as we expected and to prepare [ READ MORE ]
August 5, 2009 Exactly five months after the launch of the Kepler spacecraft, NASA will hold a press conference to present early science results. Early science results. I linger over those words with great pleasure. It isn’t sufficient to simply write about the science or even comment on the mood of the science team [ READ MORE ]
With the thunderous launch of the Delta II rocket this weekend, not only was the Kepler space telescope lofted into the sky, but also our hopes of finding a Second Earth. But now, after those few minutes of intense excitement, comes several months of impatient waiting. Kepler will spend the next two months being [ READ MORE ]
From the spacEurope ages, there was a presence who marked the difference for the good will with which always replied to every solicitation, including the fact of making himself available to answer a set of questions posed directly by the readers. That man was Malcolm Fridlund, ESA COROT Project Scientist[ READ MORE ]
Living beings inhabit these worlds.” “Innumerable suns exist; innumerable earths revolve around these suns in a manner similar to the way the seven planets revolve around our sun. Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) More than 400 hundreds separate the vision defended by Giordano Bruno of the existence of other suns and other worlds beyond [ READ MORE ]
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