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Zoom into the Sagittarius area of the nighttime sky, where Hubble looked into our Milky Way galaxy for extrasolar planets. The camera then zooms all the way into our galaxy's central bulge, where the view dissolves into an artist's interpretation of one of the orbiting planet candidates.
Jessie talks about her Ph.D project, searching for extrasolar planets using the transit method from the south pole. For more information about Physics: http://www.phys.unsw .edu.au/
Professor John Webb describes a project to find planets around distant stars using the Automated Patrol Telescope at Siding Spring.
For information on Physics, visit http://www.phys.unsw .edu.au/
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Extrasolar planets montage.
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All video clips courtesy of NASA JPL/Caltech, ESA and other internet sources.
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While at AAS, I got a chance to talk with JPL scientist Wes Traub, who works with the Exoplanet Exploration group. He showed me a bunch of different proposed missions that would help us find exoplanets.
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NASA'S Spitzer First to Crack Open Light of Faraway Worlds
02.21.07 -- NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has captured for the first time enough light from planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets, to identify molecules in their atmospheres.
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Swiss astronomer Michel Mayor was responsible for the discovery of the first extra solar planet in the Pegasus constellation --a milestone for astronomical research. He recently retired as a professor in the Astronomy Department at Geneva University, but continues his work as a seeker of extrasolar planets. (swissinfo, Michele Andina / ESO)
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I don't normally post the 'what's up' series but this one is of particular interest. A video by JPL regarding looking for stars that have exoplanets. Date- Jan 30. Source- http://www-a.jpl.nas a.gov/index.cfm
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Colin Pillinger, CBE, is a planetary scientist at the Open University in the UK. He was the principal investigator for the Beagle 2 Mars lander project, part of European Space Agency's 2003 Mars Express mission.
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