Kepler Mission

At least part of the transit, which only happens about 13 times every century, will be visible across the Americas, Europe, Africa and large portions of Asia. If you're hoping to watch it, eye protection is key. NASA stresses that "viewing this event safely requires a telescope or high-powered binoculars fitted with solar filters made of specially-coated glass or Mylar." You won't be able to see the tiny dot of Mercury on its celestial crawl without magnification, NASA says. Another option:…

Space-based photometers such as the Hubble Telescope and Kepler have already been launched into orbit around Earth. These telescopes were some of the first catalysts in the discovery of exoplanets. As of December 3, 2015, scientists have confirmed 1,916 exoplanet candidates as true planets (“NASA Exoplanet Archive”). Kepler and Hubble use radial velocity observing methods, which utilize the transit method and Doppler shift of a star, to identify…

Manned and unmanned missions were travelling faster and farther than ever before, and new information about the universe was being revealed almost routinely. It was the first time rockets were actually powerful enough to reach beyond the limitations of the atmosphere. It was…

by the Swiss team of Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz of Geneva. The planet that they discovered was at least half the mass of Jupiter and smaller in size. NASA has confirmed 1746 exoplanets exist and there is surely more to be discovered. The Kepler mission was too find and statistically characterizes planets outside of our solar system. This report will explain the ways that scientists and astronomers detect exoplanets, some of the most ground breaking discoveries in regards to exoplanets, and…

Space doesn’t have all the basic necessities of life, therefore NASA has to create ways to support their astronauts in space missions. By supporting their astronauts, they’re indirectly helping the humans back on Earth. NASA employees already know about the pollution their aircrafts emit. Engineers have been researching ways to go greener and they’ve enhanced solar and wind energy…

However, the mission was canceled in 2005 because of budget cuts. V. Life on Ganymede There have always been rumors on if there is life on Ganymede. According to the article Oxygen on Ganymede: Laboratory studies by M. Peters, there have been…

in the night sky. Is it just stars? Are there planets outside of our home, Earth? The answer is yes not only are there planets, but moons, stars, galaxies and other solar systems. Thanks to great astronomers such as Galileo, Copernicus , Johannes Kepler, Edwin Hubble and many other great minds we have made these ground-breaking discoveries. Not until the latter half of the 20th century did we discover we could not only observe this great mystery that is space from earth but maybe we could…

happen. Not only was it a competition between different countries, but it helped scientists from all over the world learn more about outer space! The Space Race Era took place between 1957 and 1990. President Eisenhower created NASA in 1958 and the mission was to advance space efforts against the Soviet Union. The space race was basically two big countries trying to beat each other to space, but now it's more like rich people and companies competing to take people to space for fun. Nasa did…

next, Mars. Acrooding the NASA, those dreams may be a reality in the next 15 years. But, this is only possible with the money the government provides for us. $19.1 billion is a lot of money, but it is nowhere near the amount of money needed for a mission to Mars and back. An increase of NASA’s budget will increase the amount of research and development and could possibly put a man (or woman) on the red planet sooner than we expected. NASA opened for business almost 60 years ago on October 1,…

The Fermi Paradox and Goldilocks zone are two great reasons for life on other plants, however, the Fermi Paradox could fall either way. It could fall for or against life on other planets because of this there are many scientists working through to find what's true. While people may choose their side and think that there is or isn’t life on other planets. There are thousands of conspiracy theories about alien life being real. If so, why haven’t they contacted us? Are they just not as…