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Large alien planets may be born in chaos, NASA's retired exoplanet-hunter finds
"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." ...
The Hindu13d
Kepler and his laws of planetary motion
When we are talking about astronomy, it is hard to not mention Johannes Kepler. A German astronomer and mathematician, Kepler was one of the central figures in the scientific revolution of the ...
University of Manchester1y
NASA’s Kepler telescope delivers new planetary discovery from the grave
The exoplanet, K2-2016-BLG-0005Lb, is almost identical to Jupiter in terms of its mass and its distance from its sun was discovered using data obtained in 2016 by NASA's Kepler space telescope. The ...
Ars Technica1mon
3D map of exoplanet atmosphere shows wacky climate
A companion paper published in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics reported ... thanks to the massive trove of exoplanets discovered by the Kepler mission, we now have a good idea of what ...
SETI10mon
Lucian Walkowicz
Over their 20+ years in astronomy, Walkowicz has contributed to major astronomical projects such as the Hubble Space Telescope, Sloan Digital Sky Survey, NASA's Kepler Mission, and the Vera C. Rubin ...