University of Sydney astrophysicists are behind a major breakthrough in the study of the senior citizens of our galaxy: stars known as Red Giants.
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Safe Mode Event March 15, 2011
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Kepler and Its First 1,235 Candidates
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The Kepler project team has recovered spacecraft from its Safe Mode event that occurred on Feb. 1, 2011.
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Scientists using NASA’s Kepler, a space telescope, recently discovered six planets made of a mix of rock and gases orbiting a single sun-like star, known as Kepler-11, which is located approximately 2,000 light years from Earth.
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Is our Milky Way galaxy home to other planets the size of Earth? Are Earth-sized planets common or rare? NASA scientists seeking answers to those questions recently revealed their discovery.
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During the scheduled Feb. 1, 2011 contact with the Kepler spacecraft, engineers discovered Kepler was in Safe Mode, with photometer and star trackers powered off.
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Natalie Batalha of the NASA Kepler Mission Team was online answering your questions about a new planet finding on Monday, Jan. 10, 2011.
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NASA will host a news briefing at 10 a.m. PST, Wednesday, Feb. 2, to announce the Kepler mission’s latest findings about planets outside our solar system.
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Kepler confirmed the discovery of its first rocky planet, named Kepler-10b. Measuring 1.4 times the size of Earth, it is the smallest planet ever discovered outside our solar system.
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