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NASA
Astronomers Map Stellar ‘Polka Dots’ Using NASA’s TESS, Kepler
Scientists have devised a new method for mapping the spottiness of distant stars by using observations from NASA missions of orbiting planets crossing their stars’ faces. The model builds on a technique researchers have used for decades to study star spots. By improving astronomers’ understanding of spotty stars, the new model — called StarryStarryProcess — can help discover more about…
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More Planets than Stars: Kepler’s Legacy
The Kepler mission enabled the discovery of thousands of exoplanets, revealing a deep truth about our place in the cosmos: there are more planets than stars in the Milky Way galaxy. The road to this fundamental change in our understanding of the universe, however, required almost 20 years of persistence before the mission became a reality with its selection in 2001. The Kepler…
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CES 2024
Kepler’s Humanoid Robot Launch Gains International Recognition
Kepler Exploration Robot Co., Ltd. (“Kepler”) unveiled its groundbreaking Kepler Forerunner series of general-purpose humanoid robots (“Kepler Humanoid Robot”) at the 2024 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. The event, which took place from January 9-12, was notable for its substantial Chinese representation, with over 1,100 Chinese companies among the 4,000+ exhibitors, accounting for an impressive 25% of all participants. The…
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Scorching, Seven-Planet System Revealed by New Kepler Exoplanet List
A system of seven sweltering planets has been revealed by continued study of data from NASA’s retired Kepler space telescope: Each one is bathed in more radiant heat from their host star per area than any planet in our solar system. Also unlike any of our immediate neighbors, all seven planets in this system, named Kepler-385, are larger than Earth but smaller…
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CES 2023
Kepler Vision Technologies will be attending CES 2023
Global leader in vision-based human activity recognition software Kepler Vision Technologies will be exhibiting its computer vision powered elderly care solution at CES 2023 this January Kepler Vision Technologies has been selected to represent The Netherlands by the country’s Accelerate the Changeinitiative – which has chosen 30 start-up and scale-ups from the country’s technology space to carry the flag at the…
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NASA Retires Kepler Space Telescope, Passes Planet-Hunting Torch
After nine years in deep space collecting data that indicate our sky to be filled with billions of hidden planets – more planets even than stars – NASA’s Kepler space telescope has run out of fuel needed for further science operations. NASA has decided to retire the spacecraft within its current, safe orbit, away from Earth. Kepler leaves a legacy…
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Astronomers Find First Evidence of Possible Moon Outside Our Solar System
Using NASA’s Hubble and Kepler space telescopes, astronomers have uncovered tantalizing evidence of what could be the first discovery of a moon orbiting a planet outside our solar system. This moon candidate, which is 8,000 light-years from Earth in the Cygnus constellation, orbits a gas-giant planet that, in turn, orbits a star called Kepler-1625. Researchers caution that the moon hypothesis is tentative and must…
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NASA Hosts Media Teleconference to Announce Latest Kepler Discovery
NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EST Thursday, Dec. 14, to announce the latest discovery made by its planet-hunting Kepler space telescope. The discovery was made by researchers using machine learning from Google. Machine learning is an approach to artificial intelligence, and demonstrates new ways of analyzing Kepler data. The briefing participants are: Paul Hertz, Astrophysics Division…
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