Newly-Discovered Sun-Like System Highlights This Week @ NASA
The continuous monitoring of more than 156,000 stars for subtle brightness changes has led to the discovery by NASA’s Kepler Mission of the first confirmed system outside our own that has more than one planet transiting the same star. Also, researchers head north to “Mars on Earth;” “Avatar” director and film’s imagery featured in NASA Earth science public service campaign; Mary J. Blige encourages students “to reach for the stars;” NASA helps celebrate “Star Wars;” and more.
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