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...global warming, in discounting the “false choice between science and moral values.” As I pointed out in an earlier column, the Bush administration was often directly antagonistic to concerns of scientists, allegedly editing releases about global warming, silencing a top climatologist through NASA, and pressuring the surgeon general not to discuss the dangers of secondhand smoke...
Think you could stare at a single spot without blinking for 3½ years? Then be glad you're not NASA's Kepler telescope, which is set to blast into space from Cape Canaveral, Fla., this Friday night. Kepler's job may sound boring to you, but what the spacecraft accomplishes could be extraordinary: the discovery of the first Earth-like planets orbiting sun-like stars. Those kinds of places might well be brewing Earth-like forms of life...
...Kepler were to look down at a small town on Earth at night from space," says NASA's James Fanson, the Kepler project manager, "it would be able to detect the dimming of a porch light as someone passed in front...
...planetary census Kepler takes will be very important for understanding the frequency of Earth-sized planets in our galaxy," says Jon Morse, director of NASA's astrophysics division...
...undergraduate astronomy classes when he received a call from the National Science Foundation informing him that he had won the award. Charbonneau, who also serves as the director of undergraduate studies for astronomy, teaches a number of classes in addition to his research commitments. This Friday, the NASA Kepler mission—in which Charbonneau is playing a part—is launching with the goal of looking at 100,000 stars to try to find a habitable planet. His specific role in this mission is to see whether the planets are rocky or gaseous, which will be done through...