Recent Results from NASA's Kepler Mission: Good Planets are Hard to Find and Vice Versa

Kepler vaulted into the heavens on March 6, 2009, initiating NASA's search for Earth-size planets orbiting Sun-like stars in the habitable zone, that range of distances for which liquid water would pool on the surface of a rocky planet. In the 1000+ days since Kepler began science operations, a flood of photometric data on upwards of 190,000 stars of unprecedented precision and continuity has provoked a watershed of 2300+ planetary candidates (most sub-Neptune in size and many comparable to or smaller than Earth) and a resounding revolution in stellar asteroseismology.

"What Physicists Do" Lecture Series

Speaker: Dr. Jon Jenkins, SETI