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Tuesday, 05 January 2010 03:37

Five new exoplanets found by Kepler telescope

The Kepler Space Telescope has discovered five new planets and they are being called Kepler 4b, 5b, 6b, 7b, and 8b.

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Friday, 07 August 2009 20:18

Kepler space telescope shows its planet hunting stuff

The Kepler Mission to find exosolar planets is just out of the starting gate, and it has already verified that it is up to the challenge of finding exoplanets (those that orbit stars other than the Sun) about the size of Earth. Kepler is the Exoplanet-Hunter!

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Thursday, 07 May 2009 06:33

Spitzer telescope will kick on after coolant runs out

NASA's Spitzer space telescope has been detecting infrared light from distant objects for over five years. But it has almost run out of the liquid helium which makes that possible by cooling the instruments to within 3 degrees of absolute zero.

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Saturday, 07 March 2009 19:42

Exoplanet mission launched: Kepler to space

The Kepler Mission was successfully launched into space from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 10:49 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on Friday, March 6, 2009. The NASA mission is to find the first habitable planets the size of Earth orbiting about stars in the constellations Cygnus and Lyra.

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Friday, 06 March 2009 23:13

NASA Kepler mission to answer age-old question

The Kepler spacecraft and its Delta II rocket are ready to lift off from Launch Complex 17-B at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Scheduled lift off is 10:49 p.m. EST on Friday, March 9, 2009. Its mission is to answer the question: Are planets out there like Earth?

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Saturday, 28 February 2009 01:40

Reset countdown clock: Kepler Telescope to launch 1 day late

NASA announced on Thursday, February 26, 2009, that its Kepler Space Telescope will launch no earlier than Friday, March 6, one day later than originally scheduled, to double-check common hardware carried by Kepler’s rocket and the Taurus XL rocket that carried the Orbiting Carbon Observatory, which crashed after its launch.

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Sunday, 22 February 2009 21:19

100 billion Earths in Milky Way galaxy! Could it be?

According to Dr. Alan Boss, our Milky Way galaxy could contain one hundred billion Earth-like planets. However, he says very few of these planets would be able to support intelligent life. But, what about primitive (microscopic) life?

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Thursday, 05 February 2009 21:26

Kepler Space Telescope looks for Earth-like planets, and life

As astronomers expand their search with the Kepler Space Telescope for Earth-like planets outside of our Solar System, they are also seriously expanding their search for life on these extraterrestrial worlds. Shouldn’t we also come up with more serious names for these life forms that we will most likely find?

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