Scitizen Extrasolar Planets

The explosive deaths of massive stars can catapult stellar remnants through space with a violent kick. But astronomers thought less massive stars, such as our Sun, were more sedate in their demis...

http://www.scitizen.com/extrasolar-planets/a-dying-kick-for-stars-like-our-sun-_a-7-1375.html

On the night after Thanksgiving two years ago, I was at the Keck Telescope, trying to identify some very blue objects in the sky. I was looking for white dwarfs, which are the compressed ashes le...

http://www.scitizen.com/extrasolar-planets/just-plain-weird-an-odd-star-proves-to-be-a-new-type-of-object_a-7-1252.html

The Cassini-Huygens mission was launched on 15 October 1997; 10 years later, we speak to Professor Andrew Coates, head of Planetary Science Group in the Department of Space and Climate Physics at...

http://www.scitizen.com/extrasolar-planets/ad-astra-news-and-discoveries-from-the-the-cassini-huygens-mission-to-saturn_a-7-1164.html

Exoplanets are of high interest, not only because questions regarding alien life in the universe have accompanied humanity for a long time, but also because studying exoplanetary systems allows t...

http://www.scitizen.com/extrasolar-planets/late-stages-of-planetary-system-evolution-the-case-of-v-391-peg-b_a-7-1141.html

We recently published an article by Jeremy Richardson describing "the first measured emission spectrum from two different planets orbiting other stars". Here is a video, produced by NASA, on this...

http://www.scitizen.com/extrasolar-planets/video-emission-spectra-of-extrasolar-planets_a-7-506.html

The rapidly-evolving field of research in extrasolar planets (or exoplanets) has achieved another milestone, with the announcement of the first measured emission spectrum from two different plane...

http://www.scitizen.com/extrasolar-planets/another-first-emission-spectra-of-extrasolar-planets_a-7-468.html

Astronomers have for the first time measured the temperatures varying across the surface of a planet beyond our solar system.

http://www.scitizen.com/extrasolar-planets/night-and-day-on-an-alien-world-spitzer-s-hidden-universe_a-7-242.html

Kailash Sahu is the leading author of a report published Nature in which he describes the finding of 16 new extrasolar planets in the center of the Milky Way galaxy, using the Hubble Telescope. H...

http://www.scitizen.com/extrasolar-planets/-this-kind-of-planet-had-never-been-seen-before-_a-7-206.html

Webster Cash recently reported a new method to detect Earth-like planets around nearby stars using a space Telescope associated with a special shape occulter. He describes his finding for Scitize...

http://www.scitizen.com/extrasolar-planets/-it-s-just-the-excitement-of-the-quest-to-not-only-find-a-planet-that-would-be-truly-attractive-and-habitable-but-one-that-has-life-_a-7-141.html

Christophe Lovis is co-author of an report published in Nature describing the discovery of three new extra-solar planets orbiting a star nearby . He comments his finding for Scitizen.

http://www.scitizen.com/extrasolar-planets/-in-the-coming-years-we-might-be-able-to-detect-smaller-planets-and-maybe-approach-what-could-be-a-telluric-planet-in-the-habitable-zone-_a-7-126.html

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has uncovered new evidence that planets might rise up out of a dead star's ashes. The infrared telescope surveyed the scene around a pulsar, the remnant of an explo...

http://www.scitizen.com/extrasolar-planets/planets-birth-around-dead-stars-the-first-proofs-_a-7-85.html