New Earth

On January 4th, 2010, the Kepler Science Team announced the first five worlds discovered by the Kepler Space Telescope.

These planets are larger, Jupiter-sized ones, instead of the smaller Earth-sized planets it was designed to detect, but these discoveries pave the way by assuring that the systems all work and that the science goals will be met.

This announcement was made at the Meeting of the American Astronomical Society being held this week in Washington DC. Here is a link to the press release:

http://kepler.nasa.gov/news/nasakeplernews/index.cfm?FuseAction=ShowNews&…

This was the fastest I’ve ever made a video. I was heading off to bed at about11:30 pm, cozy in bed with my laptop when I first read the release – I was uploading this video by 3:00 am.

I felt this news was important because many Space Fans have been asking questions about what Kepler is and how it worked.

Keep Looking Up!

02 February 2011

NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered its first Earth-size planet candidates and its first candidates in the habitable zone, a region where liquid water could exist on a planet’s surface. Five of the potential planets are near Earth-size and orbit in the habitable zone of smaller, cooler stars than our sun.

Kepler also found six confirmed planets orbiting a sun-like star, Kepler-11. This is the largest group of transiting planets orbiting a single star yet discovered outside our solar system. Located approximately 2,000 light years from Earth, Kepler-11 is the most tightly packed planetary system yet discovered. All six of its confirmed planets have orbits smaller than Venus, and five of the six have orbits smaller than Mercury’s.

For more information about the Kepler Mission, please visithttp://www.nasa.gov/kepler

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NASA Finds Earth-size Planet Candidates in the Habitable Zone-http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/news/kepler_data_release.html

Chances of finding aliens given a boost after Nasa finds evidence of over 1,200 MORE planets – and 54 of them may be able to support life!-http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1353006/NASA-Kepler-observator…

Could we be unique in the universe or is there another planet similar to earth somewhere in the cosmos? Is it possible that Alpha Centauri, our nearest star, is home to another earth-like planet? Earth sized planets have been hard to find, but indirect methods are coming on line to give scientists a good survey of how many such bodies may be in the universe. How rare would it be to find life on another earth-like planet? Follow UFOs and Alien Life on Twitter @http://twitter.com/ufosalienlife

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The Universe- http://www.history.com/shows/the-universe/episodes/season-3#slide-3

Galaxy May be Full of ‘Earths,’ Alien life -http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/02/25/galaxy.planets.kepler/index.html

Galaxy may contain ‘many Earth-like planets-http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/8093150/Galaxy-may-contain-many-Eart…

We are not alone: One in four stars ‘may have Earth-like planets in orbit around them’- http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1324604/We-One-stars-Earth-lik…

Gliese 581 & A The Discovery of Another Earth-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJXSSYyIVqw&list=PL638D1A200EF803C7&fe…

‘We are a universe crowded with life’: NASA astronomers discover ANOTHER blue planet… and there could be life there-http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2070388/Exoplanet-Kepler-22b-N…

Parallel Universes- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gizfESZcHKc

*The Film below is very much worth a watch*

ANOTHER EARTH Official HD Trailer- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8hEwMMDtFY

Another Earth 2011- http://www.novamov.com/video/13y4txdjxar5x

Learn more about Kepler’s search for habitable planets. This is a great video for all answers you may have about Kepler.

As you know Kepler 16b has recently been discovered. This is a planet that has 2 suns like Tatooine from Star Wars.
To watch this video go here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njTxJbSVjFo

www.nasa.gov/multimedia for more information on this mission and all about space and how nasa is in search of aliens and nibiru, well not really those but search for new planets and extraterrestrial civilizations.

By popular Space Fan request, I offer this video to help answer some of your questions regarding the expanding universe. Many of you consistently ask: If the universe is expanding, then what is it expanding into?

This concept is non-trivial to try and explain in a 5 minute YT video, but I do my best. I hope this helps!

Thanks to all of you space fans for watching this channel, it means a lot to me.

Music from Kevin MacLeod:
http://incompetech.com