by Sandy Eulitt | Aug 21, 2015 | Extrasolar Planets, Life in the Universe, San Diego Astronomy, Telescopes and Missions, The Sky Tonight
Search for ET enabled by Dr. Seth Shostak I have long admired Dr. Shostak. To get to do the kind of work he does would be, I think, just about the most fun you could ever have. I had the pleasure of meeting Seth in July, 2009 as part of the Southern California...
by Sandy Eulitt | Jul 29, 2013 | Extrasolar Planets, Space News
The wildly successful Kepler mission, launched in 2009 and which, to date, has found nearly 3000 extrasolar planet candidates, suffered the loss of a second reaction wheel this past spring. Beginning a couple weeks ago, engineers, working very closely with Ball...