Tag: Kepler
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Exoplanet update
I regularly review features about exoplanets, together with giving periodical updates on their number and recent discoveries. Here for the latest stats: The catalogue…
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More exoplanets to search for alien life – Kepler’s latest discoveries
I have written a lot about exoplanets on this blog in the past, therefore this is a news I can’t avoid discussing here. Just…
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Exoplanet animation – simply amazing
It’s difficult to stay up to date with all the exoplanet discovery (one article of this week was discussing a perfect twin for our…
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Tabby’s Star, Aliens, WTF – The Controversy is still on
The idea for this articles comes out of a discussion with Roberto Flaibani. Roberto, whose name has already appeared here in some guest posts…
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Exoplanet Update – Where are we now?
Four days ago, NASA made an amazing announcement – the biggest discovery of exoplanets to date. According to their figures, which added 1,284 planets…
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More Jupiter in the news
Do you remember the claim that Jupiter is somehow a failed star? Well, this time it seems we have finally found a star that…
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Dreaming of Dyson Spheres
A recent discovery by Kepler, the planet hunter, has got everybody in the scientific community excited, as a brief look to this week’s news can…
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EXOPLANETS 101 – Learning the basics
I have already spoken a few times here about the challenges of worldbulding in SF, both in terms of designing working planetary systems –…
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The Drake Equation – Why do we still bother?
“Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way…