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NASA’s Kepler Yields the Next Harvest: A bounty of findings delivered at the 218th Meeting of the AAS in Boston

Kepler • Project News • May 25th, 2011

The Kepler Team had 50 presentations at the 218th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in Boston, 2011 May 22-26.

Kepler-10c and a New Method to Validate Planets

Kepler • Project News • May 23rd, 2011

Kepler has discovered a second planet in the Kepler-10 star system: Kepler-10c with a radius of 2.2 times that of Earth's, and it orbits the star every 45 days.

Kepler’s Astounding Haul of Multiple Planet Systems

Kepler • Project News • May 23rd, 2011

Within just the first four months of NASA’s Kepler spacecraft data collection, astronomers have found evidence for more than 1,200 planetary candidates. Of those, 408 reside in systems containing two or more planets, and most of those look very different than our solar system.

How to Learn a Star’s True Age

Kepler • Project News • May 23rd, 2011

For many movie stars, their age is a well-kept secret. The same is true of stars in space. Like our Sun, most stars look almost the same for most of their lives. So how can we tell if a star is one billion or 10 billion years old? Astronomers may have found a solution – measuring the star’s spin.

Kepler Discovery of a Unique Triply Eclipsing Triple Star

Kepler • Project News • April 7th, 2011

Star HD 181068 , a 7th magnitude star almost visible to the naked eye is in reality a complex triple system in which three stars undergo mutual eclipses as each of the stars gets behind or in front of the others. The most luminous object is a red giant star around which a close pair of two red...

Kepler Listens to an Orchestra of Solar-Type Stars

Kepler • Project News • April 7th, 2011

An international team of asteroseismologists, led by the University of Birmingham, has used data from the NASA Kepler Mission to sample the ‘stellar music’ of 500 stars similar to the Sun, according to research published today (8 April 2011) in the journal Science.

Echoes from the depth of a red giant star

Kepler • Project News • April 7th, 2011

Continuation of news item from 2011 March 17. Science article: Kepler Detected Gravity-Mode Period Spacings in a Red Giant Star, by P. G. Beck et al. - Asteroseismic observations with the Kepler satellite probed the deep interior of an evolved star.

Giant Stars Reveal Their Inner Secrets for the First Time

Kepler • Project News • March 30th, 2011

University of Sydney astrophysicists are behind a major breakthrough in the study of stars known as red giants, finding a way to peer deep into their cores to discover which ones are in early infancy, which are fresh-faced teenagers, and which facing their dying days.

Astronomers Detect Echoes from the Depth of a Red Giant Star

Kepler • Project News • March 17th, 2011

Today an international team of astronomers reports the discovery of waves inside a star that travel so deep that they reach the core. The discovery was possible thanks to precise measurements with the Kepler space telescope.

NASA Announces 1,235 Planet Candidates, Some in Habitable Zone, and a 6-Planet System

Kepler • Project News • February 1st, 2011

NASA's Kepler mission has discovered its first Earth-size planet candidates and its first candidates in the habitable zone, a region where liquid water could exist on a planet's surface. Five are both near Earth-size and orbit in the habitable zone of their stars.

NASA’s Kepler Yields the Next Harvest: A bounty of findings delivered at the 218th Meeting of the AAS in Boston

Kepler • May 25th, 2011

The Kepler Team had 50 presentations at the 218th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in Boston, 2011 May 22-26.

Kepler-10c and a New Method to Validate Planets

Kepler • May 23rd, 2011

Kepler has discovered a second planet in the Kepler-10 star system: Kepler-10c with a radius of 2.2 times that of Earth's, and it orbits the star every 45 days.

Kepler’s Astounding Haul of Multiple Planet Systems

Kepler • May 23rd, 2011

Within just the first four months of NASA’s Kepler spacecraft data collection, astronomers have found evidence for more than 1,200 planetary candidates. Of those, 408 reside in...

How to Learn a Star’s True Age

Kepler • May 23rd, 2011

For many movie stars, their age is a well-kept secret. The same is true of stars in space. Like our Sun, most stars look almost the same for most of their lives. So how can we...

Kepler Discovery of a Unique Triply Eclipsing Triple Star

Kepler • April 7th, 2011

Star HD 181068 , a 7th magnitude star almost visible to the naked eye is in reality a complex triple system in which three stars undergo mutual eclipses as each of the stars...

Kepler Listens to an Orchestra of Solar-Type Stars

Kepler • April 7th, 2011

An international team of asteroseismologists, led by the University of Birmingham, has used data from the NASA Kepler Mission to sample the ‘stellar music’ of 500 stars similar...

Echoes from the depth of a red giant star

Kepler • April 7th, 2011

Continuation of news item from 2011 March 17. Science article: Kepler Detected Gravity-Mode Period Spacings in a Red Giant Star, by P. G. Beck et al. - Asteroseismic...

Giant Stars Reveal Their Inner Secrets for the First Time

Kepler • March 30th, 2011

University of Sydney astrophysicists are behind a major breakthrough in the study of stars known as red giants, finding a way to peer deep into their cores to discover which...

Astronomers Detect Echoes from the Depth of a Red Giant Star

Kepler • March 17th, 2011

Today an international team of astronomers reports the discovery of waves inside a star that travel so deep that they reach the core. The discovery was possible thanks to...

NASA Announces 1,235 Planet Candidates, Some in Habitable Zone, and a 6-Planet System

Kepler • February 1st, 2011

NASA's Kepler mission has discovered its first Earth-size planet candidates and its first candidates in the habitable zone, a region where liquid water could exist on a planet's...