{"id":14135,"date":"2017-04-01T15:10:30","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T19:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14135"},"modified":"2017-04-01T15:10:30","modified_gmt":"2017-04-01T19:10:30","slug":"video-latest-exoplanet-results-from-nasas-keplerk2-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14135","title":{"rendered":"Video: &#8220;Latest Exoplanet Results from NASA&#8217;s Kepler\/K2 Mission&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an update on the latest exoplanet findings by the <a href=\"https:\/\/keplerscience.arc.nasa.gov\/k2-observing.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kepler space observatory<\/a>\u00a0and a preview of\u00a0the next generation of exoplanet search instruments:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seti.org\/weekly-lecture\/latest-exoplanet-results-nasas-keplerk2-mission-0\" target=\"_d\">Latest Exoplanet Results from NASA&#8217;s Kepler\/K2 Mission | SETI Institute<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>The all-sky TESS mission will soon revolutionize our view of planets transiting the nearest, brightest stars to the Sun, just as the four-year survey by <a href=\"https:\/\/keplerscience.arc.nasa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">NASA&#8217;s Kepler mission<\/a> transformed our understanding of exoplanet demographics. Using the repurposed Kepler spacecraft, the ongoing <a href=\"https:\/\/keplerscience.arc.nasa.gov\/k2-observing.html\" target=\"_blank\">K2<\/a> mission provides a natural transition from Kepler to TESS in terms of sky coverage, survey duration, and intensity of ground-based follow-up observations. For the past three years I have led a large, multi-institutional team to discover, follow up, validate, and characterize hundreds of new candidates and planets using data from K2. I will highlight some of our key results from the first two years of K2 data, and will conclude with a discussion of the path forward to future exoplanet discovery and characterization.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qPL9cFg8e38?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an update on the latest exoplanet findings by the Kepler space observatory\u00a0and a preview of\u00a0the next generation of exoplanet search instruments:\u00a0Latest Exoplanet Results from NASA&#8217;s Kepler\/K2 Mission | SETI Institute The all-sky TESS mission will soon revolutionize our view of planets transiting the nearest, brightest stars to the Sun, just as the four-year survey &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14135\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video: &#8220;Latest Exoplanet Results from NASA&#8217;s Kepler\/K2 Mission&#8221;<\/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":[46,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exoplanets","category-seti"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-3FZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11281,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=11281","url_meta":{"origin":14135,"position":0},"title":"Video: Update on the Kepler exoplanet search","author":"TopSpacer","date":"August 28, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"The Kepler space observatory was thought to be out of the exoplanet finding business for\u00a0good due\u00a0to a failure in the guidance hardware. \u00a0However, the\u00a0system was returned to action using a clever technique with solar light pressure to maintain the telescope's pointing stability. 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