by Ludwig Scheibe | Apr 2, 2025 | All, All about exoplanets, Organisations
The KESPRINT-consortium is a collaboration of international scientists from ca. 20 institutions all over the world. Its goal is to conduct follow-up observations of exoplanet candidates detected with the TESS and K2 missions. It was formed in 2017 by merging the...
by Ludwig Scheibe | Apr 2, 2025 | All, All about exoplanets, Observatories and telescopes
The Calar Alto high-Resolution search for M dwarfs with Exoearths with Near-infrared and optical Echelle Spectrographs is an instrument consisting of two spectrographs, designed to look for Earth-sized exoplanets using the radial velocity method. It is installed at...
by Ludwig Scheibe | Apr 1, 2025 | All, All about exoplanets, Observatories and telescopes
by Ludwig Scheibe (TU Berlin), April 2025 The Observatorios de Canarias are two high-performing astronomical observatories on the Canary Islands Tenerife and La Palma in the Atlantic Ocean. The area with the high mountains, comparatively dry air and low average cloud...
by Ludwig Scheibe | Mar 31, 2025 | All, All about exoplanets, Observatories and telescopes
by Ludwig Scheibe (TU Berlin), March 2025 The Next Generation Transit Survey NGTS is a ground-based survey looking for extrasolar planets via the transit method. It uses an array of 12 remote-controlled and automated telescopes located at ESO’s Paranal...
by Ludwig Scheibe | Mar 27, 2025 | All, All about exoplanets, Organisations
This article is currently a work in progress. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA is an agency of the US government responsible for aviation and space research. It was established in 1958 and has been a major driver in space exploration. NASA is...
by Ludwig Scheibe | Mar 27, 2025 | All, All about exoplanets, Observatories and telescopes
This page is currently a work in progress. The High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher, or HARPS for short, is a high-resolution spectrograph installed at the La Silla Observatory in Chile, operated by the European Southern Observatory ESO. Since its first light...
