Tuesday, December 30, 2014

How NASA harnessed sunlight to revive its planet-hunting telescope

Are we alone in the universe?


That's a big question, and there have been many attempts to answer it, whether it’s beaming radio waves at specific star systems or sending recordings of multilingual greetings out of our solar system. But for the last few years, NASA has been using the Kepler Space Telescope to hunt for life in a more direct way — by looking for planets.


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via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/30/7424343/nasa-kepler-telescope-rescue-mission-search-for-planets

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