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  1. Every star with a planet discovered by – before & after 1,284 new :

  2. Check out the newly discovered Kepler 705b...in the habitable zone!

  3. Anonymous dwarf discovered as largest unnamed object in our solar system:

  4. 550 possibly rocky planets like Earth revealed by big find:

  5. NASA Kepler reveals 1,284 new planets, in the biggest reveal from any mission to date:

  6. LIVE NOW: Listen in on new discoveries made by planet-hunting : Q? Use

  7. Don't forget to tune in tomorrow morning @ 10 PDT/ 1 EDT for the new discoveries

  8. See today's ? Try planets transiting stars far, far outside our solar system:

  9. Today's mimics how exoplanets transit their stars. Learn more:

  10. Mercury treks across the sun from our perspective only ~13 times a century. view from :

    Mercury Transit Update
  11. Yes, some worlds in really exist in our galaxy. Learn about 8

  12. LIVE: Ask a NASA scientist on about our missions searching for alien worlds:

  13. New worlds similar to Venus and Earth found around an ultra-cool dwarf star 40 lya:

  14. Our engineers are building a flying space flower to find the light of another Earth:

  15. Spacecraft Integration & Test started for . The spacecraft will find new !

  16. Distance between a star and its planet-forming disk measured with light echoes:

  17. All tickets are now reserved. Other ways to visit us: Free tours Free talks

  18. A map of exoplanet search areas!

  19. The search for near-Earth-size exoplanets is on!

  20. There are 1000s of planets out there but only one we call home. Happy .

  21. A newfound object may help answer mysteries about planets without parent stars:

  22. Astronomers discover 100-year-old evidence for hidden in a basement:

  23. It was a long weekend for Kepler and the team, but the spacecraft has been recovered! :)

  24. During a scheduled contact on Thurs, 4/7, Kepler was discovered in emergency mode.

  25. NASA's K2 mission will get one shot at finding rogue exoplanets, using microlensing:

  26. Scientists discover a young, free-floating Jupiter analog in our solar neighborhood:

  27. This view of infant star TW Hydrae is the most detail image ever of a planet-forming disk:

  28. This has a rare three suns in its sky, making it a trinary star system:

  29. First temperature map of a super-Earth planet made with data

  30. A future instrument in 2019 will find new by measuring star wobble:

  31. Why do other planetary systems have Jupiter-size planets so close to their stars?

  32. For the first time -hunter catches the early flash of a :

  33. What's in the atmosphere of a super-Earth ? Find out with ET:

  34. Mmm, pi! Use π like scientists + engineers. Take the now:

  35. We can take a picture of Pluto. But what is like to take a picture of a planet hundreds of light-years away?

  36. This week we celebrate the anniversary of the mission, which launched March 6, 2009:

  37. The Space Telescope was one of NASA's best hunters. And then it broke:

  38. LIVE NOW: Total solar coverage! Event occurs over SE Asia at 8:38pm ET. Watch:

  39. Total solar eclipse! Not in SE Asia tomorrow to see it? No worries. Watch live at 8pm ET:

    Total Solar Eclipse from Micronesia
    NASA Television will begin coverage at 8 p.m. EST on March 8. The period of total eclipse, called totality, will occur from 8:38 to 8:42 p.m.
  40. Far out! breaks cosmic distance record by measuring farthest galaxy ever seen:

    Hubble Team Breaks Cosmic Distance Record
    This animation shows the location of galaxy GN-z11, which is the farthest galaxy ever seen. GN-z11 is shown as it existed 13.4 billion years in the past, just 400 million years after the big bang.
  41. Life or illusion? A new study from will help separate living from imposters:

  42. Welcome home ! Thank you for bringing us that much closer to exploring the stars.

  43. for following our The journey isn't over. Follow me as I rediscover ! See you down below!

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