by Ludwig Scheibe | Nov 20, 2024 | All, All about exoplanets, Detection methods
by Ludwig Scheibe (TU Berlin), November 2024 A planet’s atmosphere, that means the gas layer that envelopes it, provides us with valuable information about the conditions present there. It has a critical role in the planet’s heat balance, tells us about processes in...
by Tanja Schumann | Nov 18, 2024 | All, All about exoplanets, Organisations
by Ruth Titz-Weider (DLR), November 2024 The European Space Agency (ESA) is an international organisation for exploring space and advancing Europe’s scientific and economical interests there. ESA was founded in 1975 and has 22 member countires. By combining...
by Tanja Schumann | Nov 3, 2024 | All, All about exoplanets, Organisations
by Ruth Titz-Weider (DLR), September 2024 The “Deutsche Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt” (DLR, translated as German Aerospace Center) is Germany’s national research center for aviation and space travel, as well as energy, traffic, digitization, and...
by Tanja Schumann | Aug 18, 2024 | All, All about exoplanets, Missions
by Ruth Titz-Weider (DLR), August 2024 Kepler is a NASA mission named after the German astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571-1630). Like the previous and future space missions in search of exoplanets – CoRoT, TESS, CHEOPS and PLATO – Kepler uses the transit...
by Tanja Schumann | Aug 1, 2024 | All, All about exoplanets, Evolution processes
by Iason Saganas (LMU München) & Ludwig Scheibe (TU Berlin), July 2024 Most people know of tides from the seas on Earth, with sometimes significant differences between low tide and high tide. But tidal forces play a significant role in planetary science as well....
by Tanja Schumann | May 8, 2024 | All, All about exoplanets, Observatories and telescopes
In northern Chile, on the 2682 metre-high El Peñón summit of Cerro Pachón, a very special telescope will be put into operation in March 2025:With an 8.4 metre mirror and the largest camera ever built for astronomy and astrophysics, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will...
