From exoplanets to supernovae discoveries, a spacecraft’s second life continues to shine as K2.
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NASA and Star Wars: The Connections Are Strong in This One
NASA astronauts “use the force” every time they launch … from a certain point of view. We have real-world droids and ion engines. We’ve seen dual-sun planets like Tatooine and a moon that eerily resembles the Death Star.
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Meanwhile, in a galaxy not so far, far away…
The fantasy creations of the “Star Wars” universe are strikingly similar to real planets in our own Milky Way galaxy.
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Cool Star Marked by Long-Lived Storm
This illustration shows a cool star, called W1906+40, marked by a raging storm near one of its poles.
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NASA Telescopes Detect Jupiter-Like Storm on Small Star
A star the size of Jupiter has a raging, giant storm.
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Strange Star Likely Swarmed by Comets
New clues emerge in the mystery of a star with odd light patterns.
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NASA’s K2 Finds Dead Star Vaporizing a Mini “Planet”
Astronomers have detected the first planetary object transiting a white dwarf using data from the K2 mission, confirming a decade-old theory.
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Most Earth-Like Worlds Have Yet to Be Born, According to Theoretical Study
Earth came early to the party in the evolving universe. According to a new theoretical study, when our solar system was born 4.6 billion years ago only eight percent of the potentially habitable planets that will ever form in the universe existed.
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A Spin Around An Exoplanet Most Like Earth
This artistic animation depicts one possible appearance of the planet Kepler-452b, the first near-Earth-size world to be found in the habitable zone of star that is similar to our sun. The planet’s rotation is sped up.
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Sizes of Kepler Planet Candidates, July 2015
Kepler planet candidates by size as of July 2015.
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Kepler-444: An Ancient System with Five Planets
The tightly packed system, named Kepler-444, is home to five small planets in very compact orbits that formed when the Milky Way galaxy was a youthful two billion years old.
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A Sunny Outlook for 'Weather' on Exoplanets
Scientists were excited to discover clear skies on a relatively small planet, about the size of Neptune, using the combined power of NASA’s Hubble, Spitzer and Kepler space telescopes. The view from this planet — were it possible to fly a spaceship into its gaseous layers — is illustrated at right.
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New NASA Kepler Mission Data Q&A
On May 28, 2013, NASA’s Kepler mission delivered new data to the NASA Exoplanet Archive.