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Launchpad Kepler

Join NASA on the Kepler Mission as this traveling telescope images the light from faraway stars to locate Earth-sized and smaller planets. Using the transit method, the Kepler telescope measures the brightness of a star and uses the data to predict habitable zones.

Channels: Major questions in astronomy 

Added: 834 days ago by adminn

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Heliocentric Orbit for Kepler Telescope

Simulation of the path of Kepler telescope

Channels: Major questions in astronomy 

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Ptolemaic vs Copernican Model

Simulation of the Ptolemaic geocentric model and then the Copernican heliocentric model of the solar system, from 1543-1550; original movie by Rick Pogge, using Starry Night Pro (v3.0.2); Download original video from http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Ast161/Movies/

Channels: The Astronomers 

Added: 834 days ago by adminn

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First Images of Alien Planet

Earth seems to have its first fuzzy photos of four alien planets outside our solar system. Three of them orbit the same distant star, Fomalhaut. The fourth circles a different star.

Channels: Extragalactic astronomy  Observational astronomy  Major questions in astronomy 

Added: 1174 days ago by Astro

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