• Kepler Observes Objects Circling A Distant Star

    Kepler Observes Objects Circling A Distant Star2

    • October 14, 2015

    When scientists in 2009 pointed the Kepler Space Telescope to a cluster of distant stars, something interesting was observed. Nestled between the Cygnus and Lyra constellations sits a cluster of bright objects. Invisible to the naked eye or to telescopes here on Earth, the cluster of lights is indicative of something abnormal seen throughout space.

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  • Three New Earths Discovered

    Three New Earths Discovered3

    • April 18, 2013

    There are currently two main ways to detect planets around distant stars. Either we have to be lucky and be looking in a line that causes an exo-planet to pass between us and its own sun so we can measure the tiny little amount that planet causes its stars light to dim, called a transit,

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  • The Search For Alien Life Goes Super-Viral With New Website

    The Search For Alien Life Goes Super-Viral With New Website6

    • March 2, 2012

    Keeping in line with SETI, there is now a brand new website called SETIlive.org where ordinary people can sign up to assist in the search for intelligent life in the Universe. The idea was to get us involved in using our abilities as humans to process and discover in ways that a computer just cannot

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  • SETI Resumes. Focuses On Kepler-22b For Aliens

    SETI Resumes. Focuses On Kepler-22b For Aliens4

    • December 6, 2011

      Kepler-22b. That’s the name of the exoplanet that NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has discovered. What’s so fascinating about this exoplanet is that like our Earth, Kepler-22b orbits in a similar solar system as ours and is believed to hold liquid water. What’s more, scientists believe that the overall temperate on Kepler-22b is a comfortable 72

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