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LOCATION:4421 Sterling Hall
SUMMARY:Sizing up Kepler's exoplanets with Asteroseismology\, Astronom
 y Colloquium\, Travis Metcalfe\, Space Science Institute
DESCRIPTION:The past two decades have witnessed accelerating progress 
 on one of the most fundamental questions in astronomy: Are we alone in
  the Universe? Astronomers have already discovered hundreds of planets
  around distant stars. Some of them are nearly as small as the Earth a
 nd orbit in the Goldilocks of their parent star where liquid water can
  exist. It remains to be seen whether biological signatures of life or
  evidence of radio communications can be found in these planetary syst
 ems. Our current emphasis is to determine how common such planets migh
 t be\, to find as many of them as possible\, and to characterize those
  which have already been discovered. I will give an overview of NASA's
  Kepler space telescope\, how it searches for planets around distant s
 tars\, and how we characterize those planets using the natural vibrati
 ons of their suns. 
URL:https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=3307
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