The light of a red star is warped and magnified by its dead-star companion, as detected by NASA’s Kepler space telescope.
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NASA will host a news briefing at 2 p.m. EDT, Thursday, April 18, to announce new discoveries from the agency’s Kepler mission.
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Kepler mission scientists have discovered a new planetary system that is home to the smallest planet yet found around a star similar to our sun.
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Astronomers estimate that six percent of red dwarfs have a temperate Earth-size planet, as close as 13 light-years away.
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After discovering the spacecraft was not collecting precision data, Kepler engineers succeeded in returning the spacecraft to science data collection.
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Astronomers using data from NASA’s Kepler mission estimate that at least 100 billion planets populate the galaxy.
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Four of the potential new planets are less than twice the size of Earth and orbit in the “habitable zone,” where liquid water might exist.
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William Borucki, principal investigator for the Kepler mission at the agency’s Ames Research Center, is recipient of the 2013 Henry Draper Medal.
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A new analysis of Kepler data shows that about 17 percent of stars have an Earth-sized planet in an orbit closer than Mercury.
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Kepler has completed two science data downloads since the last update, successfully completing Quarter 15 flight operations and beginning Quarter 16.
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