by Tanja Schumann | May 8, 2024 | All, Exoplanet Overview, 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...
by Tanja Schumann | May 8, 2024 | All, Detection methods, Exoplanet Overview
The Spectrum of light and what it tells us One fundamental and essential tool in the study of exoplanets is the study of light spectra. It is useful to have an understanding of the essential concepts behind spectroscopy and its application in astronomy. Light as an...
by Tanja Schumann | May 8, 2024 | All, Exoplanet Overview, Habitability
What if there was life on a planet outside our solar system? What evidence could there be? What could be measured and what could indicate life? Here are a few examples of molecules that have made it into the headlines in the search for extraterrestrial life: water,...
by Md Bayazid Bostame | Feb 12, 2024 | All, Exoplanet Overview, History of exoplanet research
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,...
by Md Bayazid Bostame | Feb 12, 2024 | All, Exoplanet Overview, Multiple planet systems
Credit: nasa.gov Definition: The planets of our Solar System are ordered a certain way: closest to the sun are the smaller, terrestrial planets Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars, then we have the massive gas giants Jupiter and Saturn, and furthest away from the Sun we...
by admin | Mar 10, 2023 | All, Exoplanet Overview, Habitability
The habitable zone is the band around a star, where a planet can hold liquid water on its surface. This depends on the energy output of the star, e.g. a relatively “cool” star like an M-Dwarf has its habitable zone much closer to it, than a hotter star like our sun....
