New Discoveries from Kepler

NASA's Kepler Mission is now into's eighth year of discovering new planets. This week, NASA held the fourth Kepler Science Conference at NASA Ames with important discoveries being announced there. Here's a rundown of a couple of the stories making the news and some insights into how these results fit into our emerging picture of exoplanets.::More about this Video::► NASA Press Release "Hundreds of New Planet Candidates": https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-releases-kepler-survey-catalog-with-hundreds-of-new-planet-candidates► Petigura et al. (2017), "The California-Kepler Survey. I. High Resolution Spectroscopy of 1305 Stars Hosting Kepler Transiting Planets": https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.10400► Johnson et al. (2017), "The California-Kepler Survey. II. Precise Physical Properties of 2025 Kepler Planets and Their Host Stars": https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.10402► Fulton et al. (2017), "The California-Kepler Survey. III. A Gap in the Radius Distribution of Small Planets": https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.10375► Cool Worlds Lab website: http://coolworlds.astro.columbia.edu► Columbia University Department of Astronomy: http://www.astro.columbia.edu► Outro music by Daft Punk "Harder, Better, Stronger, Faster": http://www.daftpunk.com and http://smarturl.it/DaftPunkiTunes::Playlists For Channel::Latest Cool Worlds Videos ► http://bit.ly/NewCoolWorldsCool Worlds Research ► http://bit.ly/CoolWorldsResearchGuest Videos ► http://bit.ly/CoolWorldsGuestsQ&A Videos ► http://bit.ly/CoolWorldsQATabby's Star ► http://bit.ly/TabbysStarScience of TV/Film ► http://bit.ly/ScienceMovies::Follow us::SUBSCRIBE to the channel http://bit.ly/CoolWorldsSubscribeCool Worlds Lab http://coolworlds.astro.columbia.eduTwitter https://twitter.com/david_kippingInstagram https://www.instagram.com/cool.worldsTHANKS FOR WATCHING!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices