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Kepler Motion: A Hybrid Supercar in Dubai - New York Times

24 Dec 2009 10:39:41 PST

New York Times (blog) Kepler Motion: A Hybrid Supercar in Dubai New York Times (blog) According to The National Post, “the most ridiculous, most outrageous, utterly unsustainable car on the planet” was on display at the Shelby Supercars booth ...

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[Letters] Citizens of the universe

23 Dec 2009 07:00:19 PST

Last March, NASA launched a spaceship named Kepler in order to discover Earth-size planets. During the next three and half years, the Kepler will ... Keep a close eye to the sky this winterDelaware News all 3 news articles »

Original story at JoongAng Daily .

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The year in space

21 Dec 2009 17:10:48 PST

The planet boom: The science team for NASA's planet-hunting Kepler mission is due to unveil its first results next month, and the announcements are likely ... and more »

Original story at MSNBC .

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What was the Star of Bethlehem? - Beliefnet.com

19 Dec 2009 11:08:44 PST

What was the Star of Bethlehem? blog) In ancient astrology Jupiter, being King of the Gods, was associated with kings and Johannes Kepler in 1606 hypothesized that the Star was a conjunction of ... and more »

Original story at Beliefnet.com .

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Spot the planet

16 Dec 2009 16:38:39 PST

Nasa launched the Kepler telescope in March 2009 to search for potential life-supporting Earth-sized planets around other stars (kepler.nasa.gov). ... Space probes may soon prove that other Earth-like planets existMother Nature Network

Original story at irishtimes.com .

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Kepler Mission news and blogs - February 26, 2010

26 Feb 2010 00:00:01 PDT

Below is today's roundup of news and blogs that haven't yet hit top story status by our community. Visit Kepler Mission news and blogs for even more news and blogs converage.

• Pat Shingleton for Dec. 22, 2009 -- from 2TheAdvocate
• El mundo de 'Avatar' puede ser real y el relevo del Hubble puede encontrarlo -- from Europa Press
• Stelldichein mit der Venus -- from Wiener Zeitung
• Looking for alien Earths? Here they come -- from msnbc.com
• Supernovas compel one to waken to vastness -- from Bangor Daily News
• Vote on the top 10 local news stories of 2009 -- from Daily Camera
• Why do you think Phil Jones Britain's University of East Anglia director of ... -- from SodaHead News
• Scientists find evidence of design -- from Myrtle Beach Sun News
• Philip Glass's hypnotic astronomy -- from New Scientist
• Kepler Mission Manager Update -- from Space Fellowship

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Lots of stars waiting in the Twins' wings

26 Nov 2009 08:08:24 PST

This summer the team added 16-year-old phenoms Max Kepler, an outfielder regarded as the best prospect to ever come from Germany, and Dominican shortstop ... and more »

Original story at MLB.com .

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3 Questions: Sara Seager on searching for Earth-like planets

23 Nov 2009 15:20:37 PST

Of immediate interest is NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, staring at a field of 100000 sun-like stars looking for Earth-size planets in Earth-like orbits ... and more »

Original story at PhysOrg.com .

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Second Exoplanet with Retrograde Orbit Discovered

16 Nov 2009 13:54:21 PST

HAT-P-7b is also one of the first exoplanets to be studied by the Kepler mission, which studied the planet's orbit over 10 days. Kepler will take further ... and more »

Original story at Universe Today .

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Carolina Skies: Finding

26 Jul 2009 10:13:00 PDT

The Kepler mission aims to find new planets, more than 300 astronomers have discovered so far. uk.video.yahoo.com

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Scientists Develop New Method to Find Alien Oceans, Earth-like ...

26 May 2009 04:30:20 PDT

VA Powerful space telescopes, such as the one that is central to nasa's recently launched Kepler Mission, will make it easier to spot much smaller rocky extrasolar planets, or exoplanets, more similar to Earth. Astronomers have found more than 300 alien ...

Original story at PhysOrg.com .

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Kepler's on a mission to discover 'Earths'

06 Mar 2009 19:58:00 PST

NASA's planet-hunting spacecraft, Kepler, has blasted off aboard a rocket from Cape Canaveral.Rocketing into the night sky late Friday, Kepler, the space agency's long-awaited $591 million space telescope, opens a new era in planet detection. In its four-year mission, planetary sci...

Original story at usatoday.com .

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LIVE: Delta II launches with Kepler Planet-Finder Launch

06 Mar 2009 18:36:26 PST

Written by Chris Bergin
The Delta II launch team at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station have launched NASA’s new Kepler observatory, a telescope designed to search for Earth-like terrestrial planets in the Cygnus and Lyra constellations. The initial three and half year mission launched at 10:49pm. EST from th...

Original story at NASASpaceflight.com .

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Planet-Hunting Space Telescope Blasts Off

06 Mar 2009 15:58:33 PST

Written by Alexis Madrigal
A new telescope that will be able to detect earth-like planets around other stars launches Friday night from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida at 10:49 p.m. Eastern time. The Kepler Space Telescope is the first human tool that...

Original story at Wired .

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NASA's Kepler Telescope Ready to Seek For Strange New Earth-Like Worlds

06 Mar 2009 06:32:49 PST

Written by Kit Eaton
NASA's set to launch an extraordinary satellite today that has a particularly exciting mission. Kepler is being called the first spacecraft with the ability to peer at distant stars and distinguish if a particular type of planet is orbiting them: Planets like Earth.

Original story at Fast Company .

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Kepler: The ultimate search for intelligent life in space begins

05 Mar 2009 16:06:55 PST

Written by Ian Sample
Mission scientists will use Kepler's 95 megapixel digital camera to survey the brightness of 100,000 stars in the constellations of Cygnus and Lyra every half an hour. Planets will reveal themselves as almost imperceptible reductions in brightness as they move across the faces of thei...

Original story at EducationGuardian.co.uk .

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NASA's Planet-Hunting Space Telescope to Launch Friday

05 Mar 2009 00:44:33 PST

Written by Alexis Madrigal
NASA's planet-hunting space telescope Kepler is slated to launch the night of March 6 from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a mission to find Earth-sized planets that could have liquid water at the surface and potentially harbor...

Original story at Wired .

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Opinion: NASA’S Kepler mission

01 Mar 2009 20:30:37 PST

The planet was discovered by the Corot, an Earth-orbiting telescope that France launched six years ago. NASA’s larger Kepler spacecraft promises to do better. The telescope has a field of view 20 times larger than Corot’s, and it’s designed to circle ...

Original story at Houston Chronicle .

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Podcast: 2009-02-28_05-Kepler Mission

27 Feb 2009 16:00:00 PST

Dr. David Koch discusses NASA's Kepler Mission and its mission to look for habitable planets

Original story at CBC Toronto .

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Podcast: Quirks & Quarks 2009-02-28

27 Feb 2009 16:00:00 PST

Secrets in Scavenger Scat, Leaping Lizards, The Evolution of Moral Disgust, Alien Life on Earth, Kepler Mission

Original story at CBC Toronto .

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Earth-like planet will be found 'soon'

15 Feb 2009 05:59:52 PST

Written by Ian Sample
The US space agency, Nasa, is due to launch a space telescope, called Kepler, dedicated to searching for planets that are similar to, or smaller than Earth. It will join the European Space Agency's Corot telescope, which spotted a large "super Earth" earlier this month.

Original story at EducationGuardian.co.uk .

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Planet-Hunting Space Telescope Readies for Launch

10 Feb 2009 17:18:59 PST

Written by Clara Moskowitz
Set to launch March 5 from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the $550 million Kepler telescope is designed to detect extrasolar planets that are the same size as Earth, orbiting around stars the same size as the sun, at a range similar to Earth's distance from the sun, and with or...

Original story at Wired .

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Will New Technologies Soon Lead to Discovery of Earth's Twin? Experts say "Yes"

26 Jan 2009 01:18:51 PST

Written by Casey Kazan Daily Galaxy Editorial Staff
Being able to find three Earth-mass planets around a single star really makes the point that not only may many stars have one Earth, but they may very well have a couple of Earths," said Alan Boss, a planet formation theorist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington in Washington, D.C.

Original story at The Daily Galaxy . Related stories include: New NASA Probe Searching for Earth's Twin - The Daily Galaxy , New Planets & an Unknown Object Discovered Beyond the Solar System - The Daily Galaxy

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Kepler's Year

30 Dec 2008 13:48:23 PST

Using a sophisticated photometer, Kepler will detect the shadows of planets as they travel across the faces of their home stars in their distant orbits. It may reveal and characterize hundreds of planetary systems, some of which could be like our own, complete with a "twin" of Earth. Durin...

Original story at Seed Magazine .

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earth's twins - only a matter of time

14 Jul 2007 12:08:31 PDT

Written by asa(asa@mozilla.org)
We know that for life, liquid water is the key. We already know that liquid water is quite common in our own solar system, just look at earlier Mars and present day Europa. This week, a team from the European Space Agency and University College London, working with the Spitzer Space Telescope...

Original story at Asa Dotzler - Firefox and more .

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Kepler Mission - best news, blogs, videos, photos and more - JetPack Future

Kepler Motion: A Hybrid Supercar in Dubai - New York Times

[Letters] Citizens of the universe

The year in space

What was the Star of Bethlehem? - Beliefnet.com

Spot the planet

Top 10 stories of 2009: No. 10 -- Ball-built Kepler searches for other Earths

Kepler Mission news and blogs - February 26, 2010

Lots of stars waiting in the Twins' wings

3 Questions: Sara Seager on searching for Earth-like planets

Second Exoplanet with Retrograde Orbit Discovered

Carolina Skies: Finding

Scientists Develop New Method to Find Alien Oceans, Earth-like ...

Kepler's on a mission to discover 'Earths'

LIVE: Delta II launches with Kepler Planet-Finder Launch

Planet-Hunting Space Telescope Blasts Off

NASA's Kepler Telescope Ready to Seek For Strange New Earth-Like Worlds

Kepler: The ultimate search for intelligent life in space begins

NASA's Planet-Hunting Space Telescope to Launch Friday

Opinion: NASA’S Kepler mission

Podcast: 2009-02-28_05-Kepler Mission

Podcast: Quirks & Quarks 2009-02-28

Earth-like planet will be found 'soon'

Planet-Hunting Space Telescope Readies for Launch

Will New Technologies Soon Lead to Discovery of Earth's Twin? Experts say "Yes"

Kepler's Year

earth's twins - only a matter of time