The planet hunting community is mourning the loss of the Kepler Space Telescope, and so am I. Since May, Kepler technicians have been trying to fix the telescope’s broken reaction wheel, a mechanism that keeps the telescope steady and controls…
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Planets are everywhere! A team of scientists operating NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope announced the detection of an astounding number of new planets — 1,235.
In a front page article in the New York Times, reporter Dennis Overbye quoted Geoff Marcy,…
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Whew! Life is busy. I visited a wonderful book store called WORDS, in Maplewood, NJ, and signed books.
What a beautiful book store, and what nice people. Thank you to Kelsey and Jeff for your help, and for Jonah for…
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