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On July 24, 2024, an international team of scientists, headed by Dr. Elisabeth Matthews of the Max Plank Institute for Astronomy, announced that they had used […]
Back in the late 1990s, while I was still teaching classes in astronomy for a local adult and continuing education program, an elderly student of mine […]
The year 2019 is proving to be a fruitful one for the discovery of exoplanets orbiting nearby stars especially our smallest neighbors, red dwarfs. On August […]
Before the discovery of the first exoplanets, astronomers thought they understood the architecture of planetary systems. Using our own solar system as a guide, it was […]
The year 2017 is certainly proving to be a fertile one for the discovery of potentially habitable exoplanets. Just a year ago there were maybe five […]
The nearby α Centauri system is among the best known among astronomers and the general public alike. Frequently the setting of various science fiction stories over […]
It is difficult to believe that it has already been a year but on August 24, 2016, an international team of astronomers led by Guillem Anglada-Escudé […]
I doubt that there are many space enthusiasts or even scientists out there who remember the first time they ever heard mention of the name Tau […]
On August 24, 2016 an international team of astronomers led by Guillem Anglada-Escudé (Queen Mary University of London) announced the discovery of Proxima Centauri b – […]
The year 2017 has certainly been turning out to be a busy one for the discovery of extrasolar planets orbiting nearby stars. This should not be […]
Over the past couple of decades, the pace of exoplanet discoveries has accelerated with literally thousands of extrasolar planets currently known. Today there are numerous databases […]
While stories of exoplanet discoveries made by NASA’s Kepler spacecraft have dominated the media in recent years, there are many other surveys for extrasolar planets taking […]
