Showing posts with label exoplanets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label exoplanets. Show all posts
Thursday, August 25

A New Planetary Neighbor

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It appears we overlooked our nearest neighboring star, the red dwarf Proxima Centauri, as a potential host of planets. Until now. A ...
Monday, June 6

Patience Pays Off: Student Discovers Planets

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Michelle Kunimoto, a student at the University of British Columbia, recently discovered four new exoplanets  about 3,200 light years away ...
Saturday, May 7

The Search for Habitable Planets Expands

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It is amazing that Star Trek in the 1960s and Cosmos on the 1970s speculated about distant planets, and here we are today actually st...
Saturday, December 12

Are Some Distant Planets a Mirage?

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“ It was thought that the reliability of the Kepler exoplanets detection was very good – between 10 and 20% of them were not planets. Ou...
Sunday, June 14

New NASA Video on the Hubble Space Telescope

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A new NASA video titled "Oh Planet, What Art Thou?" continues the celebration of Hubble's 25th anniversary by noting how the...
Sunday, March 1

Is the Earth the Best of All Possible Worlds?

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The search for exoplanets continues, with some very interesting recent discoveries, including 11.2 billion year old planets (though the H...
Sunday, January 19

NOVA: A Story About Exoplanets

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Earlier this month PBS's NOVA had an good program on exoplanets called Alien Planets Revealed .  You can still view the show on NOV...