The Kepler Revolutions

There have been two scientific revolutions involving a "Kepler"- one 400 years ago and one on-going! Prof Kipping explains both and why NASA's Kepler Mission will go down in the history books as transformative.

::More about this Video::

► NASA's Kepler Mission website: kepler.nasa.gov/
► Burke et al. (2015), "Terrestrial Planet Occurrence Rates for the Kepler GK Dwarf Sample": arxiv.org/abs/1506.04175
► Doyle et al. (2011), "Kepler-16: A Transiting Circumbinary Planet": arxiv.org/abs/1109.3432
► Johansen et al. (2012), "Can planetary instability explain the Kepler dichotomy?": arxiv.org/abs/1206.6898
► Outro music by Taylor Davis:    • The Avengers Theme - Violins Cover - ...  

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