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Hubble to Target ‘Hot Jupiters’

By Guest PostAugust 21, 2011Scienceadam showman, alien atmospheres of hot jupiters, astronomers, atmospheric conditions of planets, david sing, exoplanets, gilda ballester, hot jupiter atmospheres, hot jupiters, Hubble Space Telescope, kelvin, mysterious gas, NASA, rotation, solar systems, stratospheres, temperatures, thermal inversion zone, university of exeter, visible light spectrum

An international team of astronomers led by a former UA graduate student has set out on the largest program to date exploring the alien atmospheres of “Hot Jupiters” – massive planets in solar systems far away from our own.

An international team of scientists has secured a large program of nearly 200 hours of observing time with NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to explore the atmospheric conditions of planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets. (more…)

Citizen Scientists Join Search for Earth-like Planets

By Guest PostDecember 19, 2010Scienceastronomers, citizen science project, constellation, cygnus, debra fischer, dimming of light, earth, earth like planets, exoplanets, galaxy zoo, galaxy zoo project, global network, globe, human computing power, jupiter, kepler mission, kevin schawinski, large gas giants, meg schwamb, NASA, planet candidates, planet hunters, solar system, space telescope, sun, web users, yale astronomer, zooniverse

Web users around the globe will be able to help professional astronomers in their search for Earth-like planets thanks to a new online citizen science project called Planet Hunters that launched Dec. 16. at www.planethunters.org.

Planet Hunters, which is the latest in the Zooniverse citizen science project collection, will ask users to help analyze data taken by NASA’s Kepler mission. The space telescope has been searching for planets beyond our own solar system—called exoplanets—since its launch in March 2009. (more…)

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Hubble to Target ‘Hot Jupiters’

Citizen Scientists Join Search for Earth-like Planets