{"id":11048,"date":"2015-07-23T11:44:21","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T15:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=11048"},"modified":"2015-07-23T11:44:21","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T15:44:21","slug":"latest-kepler-exoplanet-finding-to-be-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=11048","title":{"rendered":"Latest Kepler exoplanet finding to be announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA is going to make an announcement today at 12:00 noon EDT about the latest discovery by\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/kepler.nasa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kepler \u00a0space observatory<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/news\/media\/newsaudio\/index.html\" target=\"_d\">NASA News Audio<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The first exoplanet orbiting another star like our sun was discovered in 1995. Exoplanets, especially small Earth-size worlds, belonged within the realm of science fiction just 21 years ago. Today, and thousands of discoveries later, astronomers are on the cusp of finding something people have dreamed about for thousands of years &#8212; another Earth.<\/p>\n<p>The briefing participants are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>John Grunsfeld<\/strong>, associate administrator for NASA&#8217;s Science Mission Directorate in Washington<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jon Jenkins<\/strong>, Kepler data analysis lead at NASA&#8217;s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jeff Coughlin<\/strong>, Kepler research scientist at SETI Institute in Mountain View, California<\/li>\n<li><strong>Didier Queloz<\/strong>, professor of astrophysics at Cambridge University, United Kingdom<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0px none transparent;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ustream.tv\/embed\/9407922?v=3&amp;wmode=direct\" width=\"480\" height=\"302\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\">    <\/iframe><a style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; font-weight: normal; text-align: left;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ustream.tv\" target=\"_blank\">Broadcast live streaming video on Ustream<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA is going to make an announcement today at 12:00 noon EDT about the latest discovery by\u00a0the Kepler \u00a0space observatory: NASA News Audio The first exoplanet orbiting another star like our sun was discovered in 1995. Exoplanets, especially small Earth-size worlds, belonged within the realm of science fiction just 21 years ago. Today, and thousands &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=11048\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Latest Kepler exoplanet finding to be announced<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exoplanets"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-2Sc","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15346,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=15346","url_meta":{"origin":11048,"position":0},"title":"Video: Google neural network used to discover exoplanet","author":"TopSpacer","date":"December 15, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"A NASA \/ Google collaboration used artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to discover an eighth planet around the star\u00a0Kepler-90i, which resides just over 2500 light years from earth. 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