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Finding Alien Worlds: Studying Exoplanets From Bridgewater State University, Maria Patrone
Finding Alien Worlds: Studying Exoplanets From Bridgewater State University, Maria Patrone
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The search for exoplanets, or planets orbiting other stars in our galaxy, has only been a field of study since the early 1990's and is currently a popular area of research among astrophysicists. With the launch of the Kepler Space telescope in 2009, there are over three thousand confirmed exoplanets, and over four thousand Kepler Objects of Interest (KOI's), which are possible exoplanet candidates. With so much data obtained from Kepler, NASA relies on ground based observatories to follow up and confirm KOI's as exoplanets or false positives. For the last three years I have been studying exoplanets at Bridgewater …