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Roger Hunter

Updates from Kepler Mission Manager - Roger Hunter

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Johannes Kepler

Portrait of Johannes Kepler

His Life, His Laws and Times

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News and Features

The artist's concept depicts a comet-like tail of a possible disintegrating super Mercury-size planet candidate as it transits its parent star named KIC 12557548. At an orbital distance of only twice the diameter of its star, the surface temperature of the potential planet is estimated to be a swelt

NASA’s Kepler Detects Potential Evaporating Planet ...

Astronomers may have detected evidence of a possible planet disintegrating under the searing heat of its host star located 1,500 light-years from ...

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Kepler Mission Manager Update

April was a momentous time for the mission! The team received approval for a mission extension through fiscal year 2016.

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NASA's Kepler Mission Approved For Mission Extension

NASA's Kepler mission has been approved for extension through fiscal year 2016.

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Kepler Milky Way

Kepler Mission Manager Update

On March 31 and April 1, team members from NASA Ames and the Kepler mission will participate in the first SpaceUp San Francisco event held at Citizen ...

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a view of Kepler in space

Kepler Mission Manager Update

On Feb. 29, 2012, a Kepler project team contingent briefed a senior review panel and NASA Headquarters members on a proposal for extending the Kepler ...

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Kepler Laureate award

NASA's Kepler Mission Wins 2012 Aviation Week Award

NASA's Kepler mission has been named winner of the 2012 Aviation Week Laureate Award in the Space category.

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Space Foundation Honors Kepler Mission with Award

Kepler has been selected as the 2012 recipient of the Space Foundation’s John L. "Jack" Swigert, Jr., Award for Space Exploration.

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Kepler Releases New Catalog of Planet Candidates

Since science operations began in May 2009, the Kepler team has released two catalogs of transiting planet candidates.

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John Johnson

Black History Month - Profile of a Scientist

February is Black History Month, and to mark the occasion, we recently sat down with John Johnson, scientist at NASA's Exoplanet Science Institute at ...

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artist concept of Kepler mission

Kepler Mission Manager Update

The Kepler team announced the discovery of 11 new planetary systems with 26 more planets and found two new circumbinary planets.

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Kepler Planet Count

    Confirmed Planets: 61
    Planet Candidates: 2,321
    Eclipsing Binary Stars: 2,165
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