From tomsastroblog.com
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Debra Fischer
Debra Fischer is a professor at San Francisco State University who specializes in the search and study of exoplanets. Exoplanets are those planets that orbit other stars, outside of our own system.
Will scientists discover life on other planets in our lifetime?
17 votes so far
Leader:
No, the universe is too vast
No, the universe is too vast
Will Debra Fischer ever find a super-Earth outside of our solar system?
2 votes so far
Leader:
Yes, now that we have the Kepler probe we have better chances
Yes, now that we have the Kepler probe we have better chances
A research team using a brand new planet-hunting instrument on the Subaru Telescope called the High Contrast Instrument for the Subaru next generation Adaptive Optics, (let’s just call it HiCIAO), has found and imaged not one but two possible exoplanets.
The star named GJ 758, a sun much like our own was found to have at [...]
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You won’t want to miss an interview with Debra Fischer now available on the MarketSaw site. The latter is a blog focused on 3D motion pictures, and thus the interest in Fischer’s work on Alpha Centauri draws from a cinematic base. Specifically, James Cameron’s new movie Avatar depicts a gas giant with a habitable moon [...]
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From centauri-dreams.org
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The exoplanet watch among our readers is clearly in full operation, to judge from the number of backchannel messages I received about the latest work from HARPS (High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher). The remarkable ESO spectrograph attached to the La Silla 3.6-meter telescope now offers evidence that Sun-like stars that host planets will show [...]
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From centauri-dreams.org
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European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere announces new exoplanet -- planets that exist outside the earth's solar system -- findings that dramatically increases the number of exoplanets by 30 percent. - Confirming its reputation as an exoplanet discoverer extraordinaire,
the HARPS (High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher) team said
Oct. 19 it has discovered 32 new planets existing outside the earth's...
From eweek.com
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- Exoplanets Clue To Sun's Curious Chemistry (news.google.com)
On October 19, 2009, at an international exoplanet conference, the team who built the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher, better known as HARPS, the spectrograph for ESO’s 3.6-meter telescope, reports on the incredible discovery of more than 30 new exoplanets, cementing HARPS’s position as the world’s foremost exoplanet hunter. ESO Acknowledgements: Visual design and editing: Martin Kornmesser and Luis Calçada. Cinematography...
From video.redorbit.com
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- Make Room For 32 New ExoPlanets! (satnews.com)
- Astronomers Discover 32 New Exoplanets (redorbit.com)
Nature: Exoplanets are distant worlds that orbit stars other than our Sun. More than 370 such planets are known, and a growing fraction of them are discovered because they transit their star as seen from Earth. The special transit geometry...
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From blogs.physicstoday.org
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Exoplanet House Of HorrorsSpace DailyWhile most of the exoplanets found so far are hellishly hot, OGLE-2005-BLG-390L b has the distinction of being the coldest exoplanet yet discovered. ...
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From news.google.com
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Kepler's Exoplanet Hunt On Hold Until 2011Discovery NewsIf there is any electronic noise between the light being received and the data being sent to Earth, the signal of transiting exoplanets may be lost in the ...and more »
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From news.google.com
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the4thdimension writes "An article on CNN notes that 32 exoplanets have been discovered using a new Chilean telescope. The telescope is capable of detecting movements of 2.1mph (comparable to a slow walking pace). These 32 new planets give the telescope a total of 75 planets it has discovered, out of the 400 discovered using all methods employed by astronomers. This places the HARPS system as the world's foremost exoplanet hunter."Read more of...
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From rss.slashdot.org
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Thirty-two new alien orbs have just been added to the growing list of exoplanets, including several that qualify as “super-Earths,” meaning they have a mass only a few times that of our planet and could potentially harbor Earth-like environments.
In the past five years, the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher, a special exoplanet-hunting device attached [...]
From blog.wired.com
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- Exoplanets clue to sun's curious chemistry (eurekalert.org)
- Exoplanets Clue to Sun's Curious Chemistry (del.icio.us)
