Tag: Kepler

Kepler Discovers Its First Rocky Planet

NASA’s Kepler mission confirmed the discovery of its first rocky planet, named Kepler-10b. Measuring 1.4 times the size of Earth, it is the smallest planet ever discovered outside our solar …
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Project Logan – Mobile Kepler Island demo

This is a demo of the graphics capabilities of the Mobile Kepler GPU embedded within our next-gen mobile processor – Project Logan. OpenGL 4.3 Tessellation is highlighted here, providing up …
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Kepler Finds Double-Sun System

NASA’s Kepler space telescope has discovered its first circumbinary planet, a planet that orbits two suns. The cold, Saturn-sized planet is not in the star system’s habitable zone. But, someone …

Kepler Launch Animation

The earth-sized planet hunting telescope, Kepler, is slated to launch March 6th. Here’s a NASA animation of how that could look.
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Neptune Through the Eyes of Kepler

In late 2014 and early 2015, NASA’s Kepler telescope observed the eighth planet in our solar system, Neptune. Kepler detected Neptune’s daily rotation, the movement of clouds, and even minute …
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