Animation: Distant Exoplanet Transiting Its Star
When a distant exoplanet transits, or crosses in front of its star, it causes a slight dip in the star’s brightness. The Kepler space telescope measures this dip in a …
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Exoplanet Explorer for Android
Josh takes a look at Exoplanet Explorer for Android.
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Space Is Hard | The Gear of Exoplanet Exploration
When humans touch down on an exoplanet they’ll need some new tools—like NASA’s prototype mining robot and the Z-2 suit made for Martian hiking trips. Still haven’t subscribed to WIRED …
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Kepler Finds Newborn Exoplanet on This Week @NASA – June 24, 2016
NASA announced June 20, astronomers have discovered the youngest fully formed exoplanet ever detected. The discovery of the planet outside our solar system was made using NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope …
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Kepler-186f: First exoplanet found to be ‘almost like Earth’
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New Kepler Orrery updates exoplanet families
A dizzying display shows all 3538 known and candidate exoplanets in multi-planet systems that NASA’s planet-hunting space telescope has discovered so far Read more:
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Curious ExoPlanet Hot Spot
From the Spitzer Science Center: The gas-giant planet, named upsilon Andromedae b, orbits tightly around its star, with one face perpetually boiling under the star’s heat. It belongs to a …
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Big New ExoPlanet Haul
From EsoCast in 1080p, comes the announcement of a rash of new planet discoveries. Astronomers using ESO’s leading exoplanet hunter HARPS have today announced more than fifty newly discovered planets …
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Rocky Earth-sized exoplanet found orbiting nearby star
There’s a new exoplanet on the galactic map and scientists are particularly excited about it. That’s because it will be their first opportunity to study the atmosphere of a rocky …
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Exo-Planet Hot Flareup
From HubbleCast. An international team of astronomers using data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has made an unparalleled observation, detecting significant changes in the atmosphere of a planet located beyond …
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