NASA has confirmed that it will host a news briefing on Thursday to announce a new discovery by the Kepler telescope mission. The event will feature contributions from the SETI (Search for extraterrestrial intelligence) Institute and bizarrely from Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), a division of Lucasfilm Ltd.
Earlier this year, the Kepler mission discovered its first Earth-size planet candidates and its first candidates in the habitable zone, a region where liquid water could exist on a planets surface. Five are both near Earth-size and orbit in the habitable zone of their stars. The discoveries were part of several hundred new planet candidates identified in new Kepler mission science data, released on Febuary 1.
Wonder what else has been keeping us busy lately? Tune-in Thurs, Sept 15 at 11 a.m. PDT to find out! was the message tweeted by NASAs Kepler Mission on Tuesday.
A representative from Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), a division of Lucasfilm Ltd., will join a panel of scientists to discuss the discovery. The briefing participants are:
Charlie Sobeck, Kepler deputy project manager, Ames Research Center
Nick Gautier, Kepler project scientist, NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California.
Laurance Doyle, lead author, SETI Institute, Mountain View, California.
John Knoll, visual effects supervisor, ILM, San Francisco.
Greg Laughlin, professor for Astrophysics and Planetary Science, University of California, Santa Cruz, Calif.
The press conference, which will be carried live (11 a.m. PDT, Thursday) on NASA Television and the agencys website, comes just days after astronomers using the worlds most successful planet finding telescope said they had discovered more than fifty new exoplanets orbiting nearby stars, including sixteen super-Earths.
NASA to Announce Kepler Discovery at Media Briefing -- MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., Sept. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --
Earlier this year, the Kepler mission discovered its first Earth-size planet candidates and its first candidates in the habitable zone, a region where liquid water could exist on a planets surface. Five are both near Earth-size and orbit in the habitable zone of their stars. The discoveries were part of several hundred new planet candidates identified in new Kepler mission science data, released on Febuary 1.
Wonder what else has been keeping us busy lately? Tune-in Thurs, Sept 15 at 11 a.m. PDT to find out! was the message tweeted by NASAs Kepler Mission on Tuesday.
A representative from Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), a division of Lucasfilm Ltd., will join a panel of scientists to discuss the discovery. The briefing participants are:
Charlie Sobeck, Kepler deputy project manager, Ames Research Center
Nick Gautier, Kepler project scientist, NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California.
Laurance Doyle, lead author, SETI Institute, Mountain View, California.
John Knoll, visual effects supervisor, ILM, San Francisco.
Greg Laughlin, professor for Astrophysics and Planetary Science, University of California, Santa Cruz, Calif.
The press conference, which will be carried live (11 a.m. PDT, Thursday) on NASA Television and the agencys website, comes just days after astronomers using the worlds most successful planet finding telescope said they had discovered more than fifty new exoplanets orbiting nearby stars, including sixteen super-Earths.
NASA to Announce Kepler Discovery at Media Briefing -- MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., Sept. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --