by Pamela | Jan 4, 2010 | Astronomy, Exo Solar Systems, Space Craft
This is the morning of Kepler. I’m currently sitting in a the Marriot Ballroom watching the speaker, William J Borucki (NASA/Ames) gear up to announcing planets. This amazing mission has been imaging the same rich stellar field over and over looking for...
by Pamela | Jan 24, 2007 | Exo Solar Systems, Planets, Politics, Space Craft
A quick fly through the nearby universe will show you, well, a whole lot of nothing. But, embedded in the nearest bits of that nothing are 8 spectacular planets, dozens of moons, and hundreds of random bits of rock and ice that, depending on where they orbit, fall...
