{"id":1550,"date":"2013-04-07T06:19:40","date_gmt":"2013-04-07T06:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1550"},"modified":"2013-04-08T05:09:06","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T05:09:06","slug":"a-new-exoplanet-finder-mission-in-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1550","title":{"rendered":"A new exoplanet finder mission in 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good to hear that there will be a follow up mission to the <a href=\"http:\/\/kepler.nasa.gov\/\" target=\"_d\">Kepler<\/a> space observatory dedicated to finding exoplanets:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cosmiclog.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2013\/04\/06\/17623372-nasa-chooses-all-sky-planet-hunter-neutron-star-watcher-for-liftoff-in-2017?lite\" target=\"_d\">NASA chooses all-sky planet hunter, neutron star watcher for liftoff in 2017 &#8211; Cosmic Log<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/home\/hqnews\/2013\/apr\/HQ_13-088_Astro_Explorer_Mission_.html\" target=\"_d\">NASA Selects Explorer Investigations for Formulation- NASA <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: Don&#8217;t see a website for the exoplanet project yet but here is a Wikipedia page:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Transiting_Exoplanet_Survey_Satellite\" target=\"_d\">Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A commenter here, points also to the other\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/home\/hqnews\/2013\/apr\/HQ_13-088_Astro_Explorer_Mission_.html\" target=\"_d\">experiment that NASA approved<\/a> &#8211; the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov\/docs\/nicer\/\" target=\"_d\">Neutron star Interior Composition ExploreR (NICER)<\/a>. This will be mounted on the exterior of the ISS in 2017 to study neutron stars with a X-ray timing and spectroscopy instrument.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good to hear that there will be a follow up mission to the Kepler space observatory dedicated to finding exoplanets: NASA chooses all-sky planet hunter, neutron star watcher for liftoff in 2017 &#8211; Cosmic Log NASA Selects Explorer Investigations for Formulation- NASA Update: Don&#8217;t see a website for the exoplanet project yet but here is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1550\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A new exoplanet finder mission in 2017<\/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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-p0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18239,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=18239","url_meta":{"origin":1550,"position":0},"title":"Video: &#8220;The Golden Age of Exoplanet Exploration&#8221;","author":"TopSpacer","date":"March 15, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"At a public seminar at NASA JPL, Jessie Christiansen and Karl Stapelfeldt of Caltech and NASA talked about the exoplanets discoveries made thus far and those to be made by new observatories: Since the discovery of the first exoplanet orbiting a sun-like star in 1995, several thousand more have been\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Astronomy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Astronomy","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=12"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/WkWsJWOWTBE\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":15346,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=15346","url_meta":{"origin":1550,"position":1},"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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