Kepler

Swedish radio reports that Nocturne, based on the Lars Kepler crime series, is coming to Apple TV as a Nordic Noir production. The news is drawing attention among Scandinavian crime fiction fans, as the husband-and-wife writing duo's thrillers have a large international readership and previous adaptations, including the Joona Linna stories, have been widely followed.

Kepler-1297 b is an exoplanet discovered in 2016 by NASA's Kepler mission, orbiting its star every 1.68 days. The rocky world is nearly Earth-sized, with a radius about 0.97 times that of our planet, and lies roughly 4,695 light-years from Earth. Space enthusiasts are sharing details of the planet via NASA's Eyes on Exoplanets visualization tool, highlighting the variety of rocky worlds found beyond the solar system.

Astronomers are studying an unusual ultra-short-period exoplanet, one of the 'lava worlds' discovered by the Kepler and TESS missions that orbit their stars extremely quickly. This reflective planet is proving difficult to explain, as its properties do not fit neatly with current models of how such close-orbiting, molten-surfaced worlds form and evolve.

Johannes Kepler's 17th-century work Somnium is being discussed for its striking idea: viewed from the Moon, Earth becomes an object in the sky, and one's own surroundings seem still. The text shows that descriptions of the heavens depend on where the observer stands, making perspective part of the astronomical problem itself.

Actress Yasmine Lavoine appears nude in the third episode of the 2019 French series Kepler(s), season one. Attention has turned back to the scene, with online users circulating and discussing clips of her performance in the episode. No new project or controversy connected to the actress was reported alongside the renewed interest.

Astronomers have identified the physical mechanisms driving the extreme stellar activity of KIC 2852961, a red giant star whose superflares do not fit standard evolutionary models. Drawing on long-term observations from NASA's Kepler space telescope, the team says the findings shed new light on how such colossal energy releases can occur on evolved stars, challenging existing assumptions about stellar behaviour.

Kepler-100 c is a Neptune-like giant planet located roughly 994 light-years from Earth. First discovered in 2014 by NASA's Kepler telescope, it has a radius 2.2 times that of Earth and a mass about seven times greater. The planet completes an orbit of its star every 12.82 days. Space enthusiasts are sharing details of the exoplanet, drawing attention to NASA's interactive exoplanet catalog.