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How Kepler 2 Will Work

27 Wednesday Nov 2013

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exoplanet, Kepler, Kepler 2, Nasa

Innovative way to stabilise and control the spacecraft Kepler 2, needed to monitor distant stars with transiting planets

Kepler’s Second Light: How K2 Will Work | NASA.

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Kepler Orrery of Exoplanets

08 Friday Nov 2013

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exoplanet, extrasolar planet, Kepler, Ludwig van Beethoven, Moonlight Sonata, Nasa

NASA’s Kepler space telescope scanned a very tiny portion of the sky for planets and came out with 3538 known and candidate exoplanets. This beautiful multiple juxtaposition of these candidates are shown to be moving to Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata. Very poetic, yet scientific!

Source: New Scientist

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How habitable are known planets?!

18 Wednesday Jan 2012

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earth, exoplanet, extrasolar planet, habitability, habitable, habitable zone, habitablezone, Kepler, Life on Mars, Mars, Planet, planet search, Planetary habitability, Space

No doubt Earth is the most habitable of all, but it does not hold the perfect score. Luckily, it’s not human who is making Earth less than perfectly habitable, but rather it is due to “tidal flexing“.

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Source: Daily chart: Life on Mars and elsewhere | The Economist.

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