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Tag Archives: earth-like planets
NASA Discovers the First “Earth-Like” Planet for the Third Time
There’s been buzz in the news about the latest planet discovered by NASA’s Kepler space telescope, Kepler-452b. It’s being hailed as a major discovery. It’s the first ever Earth-sized planet found in the habitable zone of a…boy, this sounds familiar, … Continue reading
Posted in Current events, Planets, Space
Tagged earth-like planets, exoplanets, kepler, kepler-452b, nasa
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Success for Kepler: an Earth-sized planet in the habitable (?) zone
The Kepler Spacecraft’s primary planet hunting mission has ended, but the data it generated will keep astronomers busy for years to come. Today, NASA announced that it has found in that mountain of data, Kepler’s first truly Earth-sized planet in … Continue reading
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Tagged earth-like planets, earth-sized planets, habitable zone, kepler, kepler-186f
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Planets abound!
It’s always fun when a government agency uses the word “bonanza” in a press release. NASA’s Kepler space telescope spent mission spent three and a half years observing distant stars in our galaxy looking for planets crossing in front of … Continue reading
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Tagged earth-like planets, kepler, nasa, planet discoveries, super-earth
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Red suns
The most common type of stars in the universe are Type-M dwarfs, better known as red dwarfs. These are stars that are less than about half the mass of our Sun, less than a tenth as bright, and much cooler, … Continue reading
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Tagged earth-like planets, flare stars, freeman dyson, red dwarfs
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