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Characterizing Stellar and Exoplanetary Environment

by admin | Mar 20, 2023 | English, Language, Level, Show all books, Textbooks

Characterizing Stellar and Exoplanetary Environment Edited by H. Lammer and M. Khodachenko Publisher: Science Library, Volume 411; Springer Switzerland ISBN 978-3-319-09748-0 Summary: In this book an international group of specialists discusses studies of exoplanets...

The Smallest Lights In the Universe: A Memoir

by admin | Mar 12, 2023 | English, Language, Level, Popular science books, Show all books

The Smallest Lights In the Universe: A MemoirSara Seager Publisher: CrownISBN: 9780525576266 Summary: An MIT astrophysicist reinvents herself in the wake of tragedy and discovers the power of connection on this planet, even as she searches our galaxy for another...

The Habitable Zone

by admin | Mar 10, 2023 | All, All about exoplanets, Habitability

by Ludwig Scheibe (TU Berlin), December 2024 One of the most exciting questions in the field of exoplanets is undoubtedly: is there life as we know it on any of these alien worlds? It is a question that people have been asking since ancient times. Now, in the age of...

Historical context

by admin | Mar 10, 2023 | Uncategorized

The first confirmed extrasolar planets were found in 1992 by Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail, who discovered two planets around the pulsar PSR B1257+12, later named Phoebetor and Poltergeist. Then, in 1995, the first exoplanet around a Sun-like star followed,...

Astrometry

by admin | Mar 10, 2023 | All, Astrometry, Detection methods

by Ludwig Scheibe, February 2025 The most common and most succesfully methods of finding planets around other stars are the transit and radial velocity methods. Using those, humanity has discovered thousands of exoplanets and is still discovering more. But both of...