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ESO scientists recently announced that they had recorded the first direct spectrum of light from an exoplanet using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile.

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CCAF launch pad for astrophysicist's NASA career
Maxwell Gunter Dispatch
Another of his projects is the Kepler mission, a specialized telescope that scans the skies to locate terrestrial or earth-sized planets and study their

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The Guardian
In a First, Ground-Based Telescope Measures Alien Planet's Atmosphere
Discover Magazine (blog)
However, refining Swain's method could give astronomers another tool beyond space telescopes like the Kepler mission to search for a world that not only
Probing Exoplanets from the Ground: A Little Telescope Goes a Long WayScience Daily (press release)
New Space Telescopes Could Spot Dangerous AsteroidsYahoo! News

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BBC News
Probing Exoplanets from the Ground: A Little Telescope Goes a Long Way
Science Daily (press release)
NASA's Kepler mission is searching from space now, and is expected to find several of these earthly worlds by the end of its three-and-a-half-year prime
In a First, Ground-Based Telescope Measures Alien Planet's AtmosphereDiscover Magazine (blog)
New Space Telescopes Could Spot Dangerous AsteroidsYahoo! News

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Reuters
NASA Ames expects new jobs under budget proposal
California Chronicle
–NASA Ames is currently leading the Kepler mission, an unmanned spacecraft searching for Earthlike planets circling other stars.
Proposed budget steers NASA in a new directionKGO-TV

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Reuters
Nasa Ames expects new jobs under budget proposal
Contra Costa Times
NASA Ames is currently leading the Kepler mission, an unmanned spacecraft searching for Earth-like planets circling other stars. In 2012, NASA will launch
Proposed budget steers NASA in a new directionKGO-TV

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Reuters
Nasa Ames expects new jobs under budget proposal
Contra Costa Times
NASA Ames is currently leading the Kepler mission, an unmanned spacecraft searching for Earth-like planets circling other stars. In 2012, NASA will launch
Proposed budget steers NASA in a new directionKGO-TV

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World Socialist Web Site
SJSU professor looking 'light-years away' for planetary discovery
The Spartan Daily
For the last ten years, Batalha has been a co-investigator for the Kepler Mission, which has been designed specifically to hunt for habitable planets
Spacecraft Kepler discovers five extrasolar planetsWorld Socialist Web Site

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Kepler Goes Fishing and Reels in Two KOI
Universe Today
By now you've probably heard about the first results from the Kepler mission to find extrasolar planets. Five new exoplanet discoveries were announced

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Harvard Star-Gazer Sasselov Maps Space Frontier From Davos
Bloomberg
Back in his lab, Sasselov scrawls with a piece of chalk on a blackboard filled with equations aimed at helping map out a trajectory for the Kepler Mission,

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U of T Astronomy & Space Exploration Society hosts annual symposium
Laboratory Products News
The recent discovery of water on the Moon as well as the launch of the Kepler mission and its search for extrasolar planets have piqued great interest

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Kepler Mission Update: First exoplanet discovery, focal plane anomaly
PhysOrg.com
Provisions were included in Kepler's design to accommodate degradation in Kepler's performance as the mission progresses. Additional telemetry is being

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Space Fellowship
Kepler Mission Manager Update
Space Fellowship
Provisions were included in Kepler's design to accommodate degradation in Kepler's performance as the mission progresses. Additional telemetry is being

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Kepler is continuing to collect science data.

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Search for more earths will be big news
The Tennessean
But NASA's Kepler Mission, now in the works for over 25 years, is awesome, literally another world. The “telescope” is no telescope at all, but a special

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