NASA Hosting Web Chat about the Quest for New Planets
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NASA is inviting the public to join an online chat with a Kepler Mission team member who will answer your questions about exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system, and a new planet finding today Monday, Jan. 10, at 12:30 p.m. PST
People who join in on the chat will have an opportunity to speak with Natalie Batalha, a professor of physics and astronomy at San Jose State University, Calif., and deputy science team lead for NASA’s Kepler Mission. The chat is scheduled for approximately one hour.
For more information on the chat and to participate with Batalha, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/connect/chat/kepler_chat.html
Kepler is NASA’s first mission to look specifically for Earth-size planets in habitable zones (areas where liquid water could exist) around stars like our sun. Kepler will spend 3 1/2 years surveying more than 100,000 stars in the Cygnus-Lyra region of our Milky Way galaxy. More than 300 exoplanets have been discovered previously, most of which are low-density gas giants, similar to Jupiter or Saturn.
Sources: NASA Kepler Mission , NASA Press Release
Ray Sanders is a Sci-Fi geek, astronomer and blogger. Currently researching variable stars at Arizona State University, he writes for Universe Today, The Planetary Society blog, and his own blog, Dear Astronomer
2012-12-04 08:05:34
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