{"id":7489,"date":"2014-04-23T21:23:12","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T21:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7489"},"modified":"2014-04-24T05:38:18","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T05:38:18","slug":"keplers-second-and-third-acts-sara-seagers-drive-to-find-distant-earths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7489","title":{"rendered":"Kepler’s second and third acts + Sara Seager’s drive to find distant earths"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Kepler space telescope<\/a>\u00a0continues to look\u00a0for exoplanets while its data continues to be mined for new worlds :\u00a0Earth II? – PJ Media<\/a><\/p>\n

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A profile of exoplanet finder\u00a0Sara Seager<\/a>\u00a0of MIT :\u00a0Sara Seager\u2019s Tenacious Drive to Discover Another Earth –\u00a0Smithsonian<\/a><\/p>\n

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Update<\/strong>:\u00a0And here is an item about not taking too\u00a0seriously artists’ visions of how exoplanets might look close up :\u00a0Envisioning Alien Worlds – Centauri Dreams<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Kepler space telescope\u00a0continues to look\u00a0for exoplanets while its data continues to be mined for new worlds :\u00a0Earth II? – PJ Media === A profile of exoplanet finder\u00a0Sara Seager\u00a0of MIT :\u00a0Sara Seager\u2019s Tenacious Drive to Discover Another Earth –\u00a0Smithsonian \u00a0 Update:\u00a0And here is an item about not taking too\u00a0seriously artists’ visions of how exoplanets might … Continue reading Kepler’s second and third acts + Sara Seager’s drive to find distant earths<\/span> →<\/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-7489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exoplanets"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1WN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13961,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13961","url_meta":{"origin":7489,"position":0},"title":"Video of Panel discussion of exoplanets around TRAPPIST-1 + Travel poster","author":"TopSpacer","date":"February 23, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is a video of the NASA panel discussion of the findings by an international team of the TRAPPIST-1 star system with 7 earth sized exoplanets (see earlier posting here). https:\/\/youtu.be\/cURfn6FH1Hs The\u00a0briefing participants included: Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington Michael Gillon,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Astronomy"","block_context":{"text":"Astronomy","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=12"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2159_posternormalsize-715x1024.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6409,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6409","url_meta":{"origin":7489,"position":1},"title":"Kepler detects 1st exoplanet with new pointing system + Interview with Sara Seager","author":"TopSpacer","date":"February 9, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The\u00a0Kepler Observatory\u00a0suffered a huge blow to its pointing precision last year when one of its reaction wheels malfunctioned. 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