An eclipsing exoplanet nextdoor
Around 55 Cancri, a naked-eye binary star in the constellation of Cancer approximately 40 light-years away, an already known exoplanet has been observed eclipsing its central star. The planet,...
View ArticleThe exoplanet transit method
Here are two beautiful videos by Paul Wilson explaining the basics of finding particulars like size and density of exoplanets that transit their parent star. For more visit Paul’s website at...
View ArticleInvisible world discovered
Around the sun-like star Kepler 19 a new planet has been discovered in a way that is reminiscent of the way Neptune was discovered in 1846. The already known planet Kepler 19b transits its star every...
View ArticleHubble Telescope participates
Hubble has role in 2012 transit of Venus. The Hubble Space Telescope will be aimed at the moon to detect dips in brightness during the 2012 transit of Venus. In an interview explaining how the Space...
View ArticlePlanet hunting from your home
In December 2010 the online citizen science project Planet Hunters was launched. Thousands of ordinary citizens help astronomers to analyse the light curves of nearby stars, recorded by NASA’s Kepler...
View ArticlePlanet in habitable zone found
Today NASA’s Kepler team announced on the first day of its inaugural science conference at Ames that it confirmed the finding of the first planet comfortably orbiting in the habitable zone around its...
View Article50 Years Ago: Fantasy and SciFi
In June 1962, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction published a story entitled “The Transit of Venus” by Miriam Allen de Ford. The editor’s preface sets the stage: It was to observe one sort...
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