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HARPS finds a batch of 50+ new exoplanets
Punch up the numbers, add more than fifty planets to the count of those that potentially could harbor life, bringing the total almost to 700. These new exoplanets were discovered by the HARPS (High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher) at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. The announcement, at the Extreme Solar System conference in [...]
Posted in News: Exogenous Life Also tagged Doppler effect, Goldilocks Planet, HARPS, La Silla, radial velocity, solar system, super-Earth 1 Comment
This is the decade: Alien planets, alien life
Fourth in a series of posts inspired by ten topics in ‘Insights of the Decade’ from the December 17, 2010 special issue of Science Magazine The topics are: Inflammation, climatology, tricks of light, alien planets, the microbiome, cell development, Martian water, the DNA time machine, cosmology and epigenetics. The original articles are now behind a [...]
Posted in Impact: Exogenous Life Also tagged adaptive optics, coronagraph, Doppler spectrometry, exogenous life, extra-solar planets, Gliese 581g, Keck Telescope, Kepler, life, planet Leave a comment
Update: Doubts about Gliese 581g
Just last week buzz about discovery of a planet far far away that might have life reverberated beyond the science community into the world at large. SciTechStory: Another Gliese 581 exoplanet most potentially habitable yet SciTechStory: This is an update: Gliese 581g is a fertile temptress The planet, known by the enchanting name Gliese 581g, [...]
Posted in News: Exogenous Life Also tagged alien life, exogenous life, Gliese 581g, Goldilocks Zone, HARPS, HIRES, Keck Observatory Leave a comment
This is an update: Gliese 581g is a fertile temptress
In case you hadn’t seen the news: A planet has been discovered – Gliese 581g (a bewitching name) – in orbit around a red dwarf (not the UK version) at ‘just the right distance’ (called the Goldilocks Zone because it’s not too hot and not too cold) to support life. [Here’s SciTechStory’s post: Another Gliese [...]
Posted in Spun Also tagged alien life, Gliese, Gliese 581, Gliese 581g, Haghighipour, planet, red dwarf, Vogt Leave a comment
Another Gliese 581 exoplanet: “Most potentially habitable yet”
The first planet orbiting the red dwarf star Gliese 581 was discovered in 2005. Since then, five more have been added. There are now three planets in this system with the tag “could be habitable.” The most recently verified is Gliese 581g, which has the distinction of sitting more or less in the middle of [...]
Posted in Impact: Exogenous Life Also tagged Gliese 581, Gliese 581g, Goldilocks Zone, habitable zone, red dwarf, rocky planet, terminator zone Leave a comment
It’s big, it’s temperate; it’s a normal planet: CoRoT-9b
To-date a little more than 400 planets outside of our Solar System have been discovered. A new planet has just been added to the list, CoRoT-9b, and it’s special. It’s a big planet, a gas giant like Jupiter and Saturn. However, its orbit is close to the star (unlike Jupiter and Saturn) so it has [...]
Posted in News: Exogenous Life Also tagged CoRoT Satellite, CoRoT-7b, CoRoT-9b, ESA, gas giant, NASA, planet, solar system Leave a comment
New telescope finds planet near Sun-like star
The search for planets other than those in our own solar system (exoplanets) has been going on since the early 1990’s. Most of the searches and discovery of planets have been done by indirect means, for example, catching the shadow of a planet as it transits the local star, or detecting the perturbation in the [...]
Posted in News: Scientific Instruments Also tagged direct observation, scientific instruments, telescope Leave a comment
Planet GJ1214b remembered