Kepler Mission

This is a question that has been repeatedly asked during the last years. It all begun with the Apollo 11, which was the first step in sending mankind into space. Since then, the possibilities to inhabit another planet had been open. NASA has made missions to Mars, our closest neighbor planet, since not so long ago. Even there are plans to make a human colony on its surface. But, will it be possible? There had been probes on its surface, checking conditions, while here on Earth the future…

Everyone at some point has dreamed of outer space, and usually at the forefront of those dreams is exploring distant alien planets in advanced starships and making new discoveries that change the way we think about the universe around us. You may think that this is something of a far off dream or pure science fiction but it’s not. Thanks to the discovery of the first exoplanet in 1995 scientists are doing just that every day.. They may not have starships and be zooming around the universe at…

and the Babylonians in 400 BC. The Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, who developed the Heliocentric Theory, theorized that Mars was a planet sometime in 1500 AD. Moreover, NASA’s official Mars exploration web page states, “[In 1609 AD] Johannes Kepler [...] publishes Astronomia Nova, which contain[s] his first two laws of planetary motion. Kepler's first law assumes that Mars has an…

we are alone in this universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying” Arthur c. Clarke. As we are restrain by are life spans we use robots and unmanned space craft one of the more famous space telescopes we have is Kepler have systems discovered by it put under the name Kepler. There are many different types of stars which are designated under classes of star from M being the coldest and O being the hottest of the main sequence stars needless to say the hotter the sun gets the further…

What is radioactive dating? and how does it work? Radioactive, or Radiometric dating is a technique used to determine the age of objects such as rocks or carbon by using the decay rate of radioactive isotopes. It has been used since its invention by Ernest Rutherford in 1905. Radioactive decay itself, is the process by which an unstable atomic nucleus loses energy by emitting radiation. Each radioisotope decays at its own fixed rate and this is measured in half lives. As discussed in Lesson 6,…

to astronomy and mathematics. The Shaw Prize is an internationally prestigious award to recommend excellency in astronomy, life science and medicine and mathematical sciences. The Prize for Astronomy goes to Bill Borucki, who directed the mission of kepler telescope in an effort to scout earth-sized habitable planets beyond the realm of Solar System. The Prize for Mathematics is shared by…

NASA's Kepler Space Telescope studied other stars to search for the faint dimming of light that occurs when a planet passes between the disk of the star and the telescope. According to Jay Pasachoff, a professor at Williams College in Massachusetts who will be at Big Bear on May 9, the dimming of light from the 2003 and 2006 transits of Mercury were too faint to be detected, opening a door to understanding the limits of Kepler and the upcoming Transiting Exoplanet Survey…

traveling to space like the cost and the safety issues. One can say that space travel is not even worth doing because of things like the time and cost it takes to carry out a space mission. Others can say it is worth doing because the advancement…

beginning, Apollo 13 mission was set as the third intended to land on the Moon; however, the mission was aborted because of the terrible explode. Astronauts have to change flight track and make a…

I have always had a concern for our planet's health and wanted to ask the question if we are irreversibly damaging our home. If this is the case then there is a possibility that we will be able to colonize different planets in our solar system and or make a man made structure to live in. This topic really hits home with me because I need to know where we will go if our earth can no longer provide us the support we need. We will have to find an affordable way to colonize a place that is foreign…