Quantcast
Channel: Venustransit » exoplanet
Browsing all 7 articles
Browse latest View live

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

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 Article



The 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 Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Invisible 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 Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Hubble 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 Article

Planet 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 Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Planet 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 Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

50 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...

View Article
Browsing all 7 articles
Browse latest View live




Latest Images