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Albert Einstein started inorperating grvity into equations
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First evidence was found of blackholes in galaxies and inbetween stars by John wheeler.
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Laser Interfeometer Gravitational- Wave Observation which is a funded scientific collaboration to research gravitational waves
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Data was recieved that Kepler would be able to see about 6,000 stars in a single field-of-view. The review panel acknowledged that science was excellent; that the detectors could provide the necessary performance, and that automated photometry could be done on thousands of stars simultaneously. The proposal was rejected because there was no proof that a photometer with the precision required to find Earth-size planets could be developed that would operate satisfactorily on orbit with the types.
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The Kepler test bed was designed, built, and tested. The results were good. A report was written and communicated to the review panel chartered by HQ to verify the test bed performance.
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The fourth opportunity to propose for a Discovery-class mission was announced. Kepler proposed for the fifth time. Kepler was one of three proposals selected from a total of 26 that was allowed to compete by writing a Concept Study Report and demonstrating readiness to proceed.
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Kepler is selected as Discovery mission #10. NASA's Discovery Program is a series of lower-cost, highly-focused American scientific space missions that are exploring the Solar System. The first discovery mission was NEAR.
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NASA researchers recently discovered the largest solid core ever found in an extrasolar planet, and their discovery confirms a planet formation theory.
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The launch of COROT [COnvection, ROtation, & Planetarium Transits] on 21 December 2006 is a long awaited event in the quest to find planets beyond our Solar System. Searching from above the Earth's atmosphere, COROT – the CNES project with ESA participation - will be the first space mission specifically dedicated to the search for extrasolar planets. COROT is expected to greatly enlarge the number of known exoplanets during its two-year mission and provide the first detection of rocky planets, p
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Kepler Telescope discovered turned a smorgasbord of smaller planets — and all in multi-planet systems.
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The newly confirmed planet, Kepler-22b, is the smallest yet found to orbit in the middle of the habitable zone of a star similar to our sun. The planet is about 2.4 times the radius of Earth. Scientists don't yet know if Kepler-22b has a predominantly rocky, gaseous or liquid composition, but its discovery is a step closer to finding Earth-like planets.
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The new method researchers used to find and confirm these 715 planets relies on the idea that planets seem to cluster in systems with other planets, rather like our own.
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First observation of graphic observational lens by Dennis Walsh , Bob Carswell and Ray Waymen
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LIGO announced detection of gravitational waves.
