Explains NASA's plan to use sensitive telescopes to find planets outside of the solar-system. Includes charts and drawings.
Planet-finding assessment by the School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham 2004.
Discover NASA's plan for advanced telescope searches for Earth-like planets around other stars. Learn about 2 separate missions with distinct designs to achieve the goal.
An analysis of the differences between planets orbiting red dwarf stars including tidal locking and spectrum. Shows how life could develop in these conditions.
EXPORT is a consortium of European astronomers using the telescopes on La Palma and Tenerife to study extra-solar planets, as well as the formation and evolution of protoplanetary systems.
Astronomers have found the oldest and most distant planet known in the universe.
South Pole based observatory to detect transits of extrasolar planets.
The James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, is a large, infrared-optimized space telescope designed to study the formation of the first stars and galaxies, the evolution of galaxies and the production of elements by stars, and the process of star and planet formation.
Orbits of planets in binary star systems. Java orbit animations and diagrams of stable retrograde planetary orbits not documented anywhere else.
Contains information and free illustrations of Extrasolar planets (carbon planets, gas giants and terrestrial planets), detection methods and missions.
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