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NASA to Announce Kepler Discovery at Media Briefing
09.13.11 - NASA will host a news briefing at 11 a.m. PDT, Thursday, Sept. 15, to announce a new discovery by the Kepler mission.
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Invisible World Discovered
09.08.11 - NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has spotted a planet that alternately runs late and early in its orbit because a second, “invisible” world is tugging on it.
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Alien World is Blacker than Coal
08.11.11 - Astronomers have discovered the darkest known exoplanet - a distant, Jupiter-sized gas giant known as TrES-2b.
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NASA Announces Kepler Data Release to Public Archive
08.12.11 - The Kepler science team announced Quarter 3 science data will be available for download on Sept. 23, 2011.
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Mission Manager Update - Closing Quarter Nine, Onto Quarter 10
08.11.11 - The mission operations team successfully completed the summer quarterly roll of the spacecraft over June 26-27.
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NASA's Pleiades Supercomputer Among World's Fastest
06.20.11 - NASA's largest supercomputer is seventh on the TOP500 list of the world's most powerful, high-performance computers. The announcement was made at the 26th International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany.
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Mission Manager Update: Kepler Spacecraft Status Report
06.17.11 - The health of the spacecraft and photometer, the instrument used to measure changes in the brightness of distant stars, is excellent.
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NASA's Kepler Yields the Next Harvest
New findings from NASA's Kepler mission were presented at the 218th American Astronomical Society meeting.
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Kepler Mission Manager Update
05.05.11 - Another 93 Gigabytes of Data Added to the Archive
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NASA's Kepler Reaches into the Stars
04.12.11 - New findings published in three papers in the journal Science illustrate the power of the Kepler Space Telescope to probe the internal structure of distant stars.
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Kepler Mission Reveals Inner Secrets of Giant Stars
03.31.11 - 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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Kepler Mission Manager Update
03.21.11 - Kepler Returns to Science
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Kepler Mission Manager Update
03.15.11 - Safe Mode Event March 15, 2011
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Mission Manager Update, March 8, 2011
03.08.11 - Kepler and Its First 1,235 Candidates
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Kepler Mission Manager Update, Feb. 7, 2011
02.07.11 - The Kepler project team has recovered spacecraft from its Safe Mode event that occurred on Feb. 1, 2011.
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NASA Finds Earth-size Planet Candidates in the Habitable Zone
02.02.11 - 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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NASA's Kepler Discovers New Planetary System
02.02.11 - 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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Kepler Mission Manager Update, Feb. 1, 2011
02.01.11 - 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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NASA to Announce New Planetary Discoveries
01.27.11 - 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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NASA Chat: The Quest for Planets
01.14.11 - Natalie Batalha of the NASA Kepler Mission Team was online answering your questions about a new planet finding on Monday, Jan. 10, 2011.