Kepler’s second and third acts + Sara Seager’s drive to find distant earths

The Kepler space telescope continues to look for exoplanets while its data continues to be mined for new worlds : Earth II? – PJ Media

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A profile of exoplanet finder Sara Seager of MIT : Sara Seager’s Tenacious Drive to Discover Another Earth – Smithsonian

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Update: And here is an item about not taking too seriously artists’ visions of how exoplanets might look close up : Envisioning Alien Worlds – Centauri Dreams