Tag: Kepler

  • Stunning Photos from NASA’s Sptizer Telescope

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    Wired celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Spitzer Star Telescope by sharing some of the extraordinary images it has produced: For 10 years, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has been helping scientists on Earth learn more about the mysterious objects hiding in our star-studded skies. On August 25, 2003, the telescope — carrying a relatively small, 0.85-meter beryllium…

  • Are we alone?

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    As previously posted, new observational techniques have allowed us to discover thousands of planets outside of our solar system.  In an article in the Oxford University Press, David Wilkinson, a christian theologian and astrophysicist, reveals the science behind their discovery and muses on what impact exra-terrestrial life might have on religion: First, a star should…