K2 to observe M35 continuously for 75 days
The target list for K2 Campaign 0 (C0) was released earlier today. C0 is an engineering test primarily to learn about pointing over en entire campaign, but we hope to do some amazing science. The test...
View ArticleGiordano Bruno said some amazing things
I finally got around to watching the first episode new Cosmos. Coincidently, I’d been chatting to Jill Tarter from the SETI Institute the previous day so Carl Sagan was on my mind. We were chatting...
View ArticleHow we designed the Kepler-186f artists concept image
Our Kepler-186f paper came out last week and we got a lot of press attention (lots more than I expected!). Tim Pyle and Robert Hurt at Caltch/JPL did an amazing job of of creating a beautiful image...
View ArticleBette Middler tweets our recent work
NASA announced the discovery of a dozen planets that could support life. DAMN! Just when I thought I was done booking “It’s the Girls” tour! — Bette Midler (@BetteMidler) January 12, 2015
View ArticleExoplanet Travel Series Posters
The NASA Planetquest team have released three cool 50’s sci-fi style posters. One of them is for a planet from a paper Elisa Quintana and I recently put out called Kepler-186f. They also have posters...
View ArticleThe first K2 multiplanet system
Ian Crossfield and collaborators posted a paper on arXiv earlier today announcing a system of three planets orbiting an M-dwarf star. These planets were found in data from Campaign 1 of the K2 Mission....
View ArticleTen cool facts about the ancient Kepler-444 stellar system
A paper I worked on with Tiago Campante from the University of Birmingham and many others has just been published. It’s a truly astounding system. Here are 10 cools facts The star is 11.2 billion years...
View ArticleKepler-37 from a backyard telescope
I was going through some old emails today and chanced upon one from Todd Klaus. Todd is now the software lead at Moon Express, an unbelievably cool company trying to send robotic missions to the moon....
View ArticleTimeline of Earth’s formation
For an upcoming paper I’m working on with my colleague Elisa Quintana I needed to make a illustrative diagram. I’ve never put a figure in a paper that isn’t a plot using data. I tried using a free...
View ArticleK2 Mission Observations of Neptune, Triton and Nereid
During Campaign 3 of the K2 Mission we observed Neptune at 1-min cadence for about 65 days. We made a movie of the motion and it’s really amazing. Jason Rowe has the best, most polished version but I’m...
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