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DTSTART:20151022T204500Z
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LOCATION:4421 Sterling hall\, Coffee and Cookies at 3:30 PM
SUMMARY:Exoplanetary Science's Kepler Revolution\, Astronomy Colloquiu
 m\, Professor John Johnson \, Harvard CfA
DESCRIPTION:Just four years ago the prospect of finding rocky planets 
 around other stars was still the subject of science fiction—none had
  been found and reasonable estimates put us decades away from such mom
 entous discoveries. All of that has changed very recently on the heels
  of the extraordinarily successful NASA Kepler mission. I will provide
  an overview of Kepler science and the new view it has provided us on 
 the demographics of exoplanets throughout the Galaxy. In addition to t
 he statistics of exoplanets\, I will also show highlights from the man
 y unusual individual discoveries that have expanded our understanding 
 of planet formation and allowed us to view our Solar System within a m
 uch broader context than ever before\, including: Hundreds of new plan
 ets from the extended Kepler K2 Mission\, a disintegrating planetesima
 l orbiting a white dwarf\, and updates on the number of (and nearest) 
 Earth-like\, habitable zone planets in the Galaxy.
URL:https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=3833
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