From exoplanets to supernovae discoveries, a spacecraft’s second life continues to shine as K2.
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The fantasy creations of the “Star Wars” universe are strikingly similar to real planets in our own Milky Way galaxy.
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NASA astronauts “use the force” every time they launch … from a certain point of view. We have real-world droids and ion engines. We’ve seen dual-sun planets like Tatooine and a moon that eerily resembles the Death Star.
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A star the size of Jupiter has a raging, giant storm.
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This illustration shows a cool star, called W1906+40, marked by a raging storm near one of its poles.
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New clues emerge in the mystery of a star with odd light patterns.
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The first fully automated and uniform process of the entire Kepler data set yields increases planet candidate count by 521 to a total of 4,696
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NASA’s Kepler mission has confirmed the first near-Earth-size planet in the “habitable zone” around a sun-like star. This discovery and the introduction of 11 other new small habitable zone candidate planets mark another milestone in the journey to finding another “Earth.”
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This artistic concept depicts one possible appearance of the planet Kepler-452b, the first near-Earth-size world to be found in the habitable zone of star that is similar to our sun.
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Kepler’s search for an Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of a star like our sun
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