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Discovering Planets Around Other Stars

Saturday, July 2, 2011

The Kepler Mission, launched March 2009, is specifically designed to survey a portion of our region of the Milky Way galaxy to discover dozens of Earth-size planets in or near the habitable zone and determine how many of the billions of stars in our galaxy have such planets. Professor Spangler with University of Iowa Department of Physics and Astronomy will discuss the Kepler mission’s search for habitable planets, the search area, mission specifics, and Kepler’s latest planetary findings.  The presentation will be followed by telescope viewing, weather permitting.  The viewing period after the talk will include some stars known to have planets.

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