Astronomy
COROT or COnvection ROtation and planetary Transits has launched today at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It is a project of the French national space agency. It's two and a half year mission will find extrasolar planet, or a planet that does not orbit our Sun, by measuring the dip in the light of the star they orbit as they pass in front of it. A 27 cm (10.6 inch) diameter lens will take in these measurements. COROT is also made to observe "starquakes" (defined by SPACE.com as "acoustical waves generated deep inside stars which ripple across a star?s surface, altering its brightness"). This will reveal properties about the stars that COROT will observe.
For more information:
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- A Step Closer To Earth-like Planets
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- Kepler: Finding Earth-size And Smaller Extrasolar Planets
Tonight, March 6, a Delta II rocket lifted off from the launch pad at NASA's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, United States. Onboard is a very special payload, Kepler. Kepler's mission is to try to reach the ages old goal of trying...
- Carbon Dioxide On Extrasolar Planet
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- Hubble Takes First Image Of An Extrasolar Planet
An artist's concept of Fomalhaut b The image on the left is the first visible-light photograph of a planet orbiting another star, an extrasolar planet. It was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The planet, named Fomalhaut b, orbits the star Fomalhaut....
Astronomy
COROT
COROT or COnvection ROtation and planetary Transits has launched today at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It is a project of the French national space agency. It's two and a half year mission will find extrasolar planet, or a planet that does not orbit our Sun, by measuring the dip in the light of the star they orbit as they pass in front of it. A 27 cm (10.6 inch) diameter lens will take in these measurements. COROT is also made to observe "starquakes" (defined by SPACE.com as "acoustical waves generated deep inside stars which ripple across a star?s surface, altering its brightness"). This will reveal properties about the stars that COROT will observe.For more information:
- SPACE.com
- Spaceflight Now
- Wikipedia
- Red Giant Star Betelgeuse Is Shrinking
Orion?s red supergiant Betelgeuse has been steadily shrinking over the last 15 years. Betelgeuse is so big that if placed in our Solar System it would extend to the orbit of Jupiter. But thanks to long term monitoring by Berkeley?s Infrared Spatial...
- A Step Closer To Earth-like Planets
Earth- like planets with life-sustaining conditions are spining around stars in the galaxy of our neighbourhood but they have not been found yet, told by US astrophysics. There are few dozen solar-type stars whih are 30 light years of the sun- half of...
- Kepler: Finding Earth-size And Smaller Extrasolar Planets
Tonight, March 6, a Delta II rocket lifted off from the launch pad at NASA's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, United States. Onboard is a very special payload, Kepler. Kepler's mission is to try to reach the ages old goal of trying...
- Carbon Dioxide On Extrasolar Planet
Artist's View of the Extrasolar Planet HD 189733b orbiting the star HD 189733 Just a short while ago, the Hubble Space Telescope took the first visible-light photograph of an extrasolar planet, a planet outside our solar system. Now just recently,...
- Hubble Takes First Image Of An Extrasolar Planet
An artist's concept of Fomalhaut b The image on the left is the first visible-light photograph of a planet orbiting another star, an extrasolar planet. It was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The planet, named Fomalhaut b, orbits the star Fomalhaut....