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On June 5 and 6, 2012 the planet Venus will pass in front of the Sun for the last time this century. Millions around the world will witness this rare astronomical phenomenon.
This website is entirely devoted to the transit of Venus: its history, where and when you should watch it and what you can do to get involved in the observation. Learn more...
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Today NASA’s Kepler team announced on the first day of its inaugural science conference at Ames that it confirmed the finding of the first planet comfortably orbiting in the habitable zone around its star. The planet, dubbed Kepler-22b, is about … Continue reading
In December 2010 the online citizen science project Planet Hunters was launched. Thousands of ordinary citizens help astronomers to analyse the light curves of nearby stars, recorded by NASA’s Kepler satellite, in order to identify possible transiting exoplanets. Small and … Continue reading
The Hubble Space Telescope will be aimed at the moon to detect dips in brightness during the 2012 transit of Venus. In an interview explaining how the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) allocates time on the telescope, Dr. Matt Mountain, … Continue reading
Around the sun-like star Kepler 19 a new planet has been discovered in a way that is reminiscent of the way Neptune was discovered in 1846. The already known planet Kepler 19b transits its star every 9 days and 7 … Continue reading
Here are two beautiful videos by Paul Wilson explaining the basics of finding particulars like size and density of exoplanets that transit their parent star. For more visit Paul’s website at www.paulanthonywilson.com.
Around 55 Cancri, a naked-eye binary star in the constellation of Cancer approximately 40 light-years away, an already known exoplanet has been observed eclipsing its central star. The planet, designated 55 Cancri e, was detected a few years earlier from … Continue reading
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