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James Davenport
Astronomer, Western Washington University/University of Washington
James Davenport is a NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow at Western Washington University, and a DIRAC Fellow at the University of Washington. His research focuses on time domain, large survey astronomy, with an emphasis on magnetically active stars in surveys like Kepler and TESS. He is the author of If We Assume, a blog in data, science, and visualization. You can follow him on Twitter @jradavenport.
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An exoplanet-hunting space telescope turns and takes a photo of Earth
On December 10, Kepler—NASA’s prized exoplanet discovery telescope—will finally turn back and take a picture of the Earth.