The team has confirmed that the photometer responded as expected and began collecting data again on…
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Kepler Watches Stellar Dancers in the Pleiades Cluster.
NASA's Kepler space telescope has helped amass the most complete catalog of rotation periods for stars…
NASA Pulls Together National Data to Sleuth Out Air Traffic Improvement Mysteries
For the first time ever, air traffic researchers can view and analyze archived flight data collected…
Kepler Mission Manager Update: K2 Campaign 10
The team finds the photometer—the camera onboard the Kepler spacecraft—powered off. The photometer was turned on…
Astronomers Help Focus Research in the Search for Another Earth
Astronomers have catalogued the Kepler planet candidates that may be similar to our third rock from…
Power of Pink Provides NASA with Pressure Pictures
Turns out the old saying works for models being tested in wind tunnels as well, specifically…
NASA’s Kepler Confirms 100+ Exoplanets During Its K2 Mission
An international team of astronomers has discovered and confirmed a treasure trove of new worlds using…
NASA’s Airborne Mission to Explore the Global Atmosphere
A new NASA airborne campaign aims to map the contours of the atmosphere as carefully as…
3-D Simulations and NASA Supercomputer Help Further Discovery of the Origin of Stars
What processes are involved in the formation of individual stars and stellar clusters in our own…