Friday, July 18, 2025

Story Post: Kepler’s Exoplanetary Validation and Announcement News

In 2014, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope confirmed Kepler-186f to be the first Earth size exoplanet discovered in the habitable zone of another star. Kepler-186f was discovered orbiting a red dwarf star about 500 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Cygnus.

posted by JonathanDark at 18 Jul 2025 02:28:00 UTC Comments (2)

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Bucky:

18-07-2025 04:45:35 UTC

Is the historical event supposed to be the validation, the announcement or the news? Unclear, but the prompt was for one event. When did Kepler validate an exoplanet? He didn’t, it’s about a telescope named after him. Which news and/or validation by the telescope does this acronym refer to? The flavor text specifies one but the acronym itself is ambiguous on that too. So does this actually fit the prompt? Unclear. And there’s a proper noun.

Score 1

Josh: he/they

18-07-2025 07:25:03 UTC

Score 3. It reads pretty clearly to me - ‘announcement news’ is plainly tautological but otherwise it hangs together nicely.

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