All Kepler Mission science results, from exoplanet transits and the frequency of Earth-like worlds to asteroseismology. Participants: All interested scientists and journalists are welcome to attend the First Kepler Science […]
Exoplanets, -moons, -comets
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2010 Santander Summer School in Astrobiology
Scholarship application deadlines plus new information for Canadian students and a worldwide opportunity provided by the Harvard Origin of Life Initiative Topic: Extrasolar Planets and Habitability Location: Palacio de Magdalena, […]
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2010 Santander Summer School: Extrasolar Planets and Habitability
Location: Palacio de Magdalena, Santander, Cantabria, SpainDates: June 21-25, 2010Deadline: Closing date for NAI scholarship applications – March 31, 2010. Overview: A week of lectures from international experts, plus round-table […]
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Humans and Extrasolar Planets
Pave New Worlds, Are We Alone podcast, SETI Institute The extra-solar planet count is more than 400 and rising. Before long we may find an Earth-like planet around another star. […]
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ROSES-09 Amendment 29: Appendix D.9: Kepler Guest Observer – Cycle 2
The Guest Observer target policy has been amended. Guest Observers may propose science using any target within the Kepler field of view, subject to the caveats and restrictions provided in […]
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First Super-Earths Discovered Around Sun-like Stars
Two nearby stars have been found to harbor “super-Earths” rocky planets larger than the Earth but smaller than ice giants such as Uranus and Neptune. Unlike previously discovered stars with […]
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ExoPAG 1: Initial Meeting of the Exoplanet Exploration Program Analysis Group (ExoPAG)
January 7-8, 2010 (Thursday 1:00-5:15pm and Friday 8:30am-12:00noon)Marriott Wardman Park, Washington DC Scientists interested in exoplanet exploration from space-based platforms are encouraged to attend the upcoming meeting of the Exoplanet […]
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The Carnegie Astrometric Planet Search Program
Researchers from the Carnegie Institution of Washington and their colleagues have published a paper entitled “The Carnegie Astrometric Planet Search Program,” in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. […]
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Avatar: A Stunning New World That NASA Is Ignoring
Editor’s note: “Avatar“, a film by former NASA Advisory Committee member James Cameron, will debut across the planet on 18 December. Widely hailed as “ground breaking” the film may well […]
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Nominations Solicited for ExoPAG Executive Committee
The Astrophysics Division of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate is soliciting nominations for the Executive Committee of a newly established Exoplanet Exploration Program Analysis Group (ExoPAG). The inaugural ExoPAG Chair will […]