He is one of the pioneers and leaders in the discovery and characterization of exoplanets. Marcy was Professor of Astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley and an Adjunct Professor of Physics and Astronomy at San Francisco State University before stepping down in Oct...
Michael Wall is a Senior Space Writer with Space.com and joined the team in 2010. He primarily covers exoplanets, spaceflight and military space, but has been known to dabble in the space art beat. His book about the search for alien life, "Out There," was published on Nov. 13, 2018...
If you didn’t have an opportunity to watch it live, I recommend the last Climate Courage of the year, with Dr. David Ko, Richard Busellato and SirCollins Manyasi. There is so much knowledge and insight here, which is so valuable for all of us to understand. If we can...
The more exoplanets we discover, the more relevant this will become.” It’s challenging to replicate the interiors of giant planets here on Earth. The first step is to heat and 7 the material to replicate the conditions inside Neptune at a depth of around 10, 000 kilometers: pulses of ...
“The water detection was quite clear to us relatively early on,” lead author Bjorn Benneke, a professor at the Institute for Research on Exoplanets at the Universite de Montreal, told Space.com in an interview. “Studies have suggested that planets with hydrogen-rich atmospheres could host ...
Gamma Librae hosts two exoplanets, Gamma Librae b and Gamma Librae c. The discovery of the two gas giants was announced on April 11, 2018. θ Librae (Theta Librae) Theta Librae is a yellow giant star of the spectral type G9IIIb. It shines at magnitude 4.136 from a distance of 168 lig...
Circinus has two stars with known exoplanets, HD 134060 (spectral class G0VFe+0.4) and HD 129445 (G6V). HD 134060 has two planets in its orbit, both discovered in 2011, and HD 129445 has one, a Jupiter-like planet discovered in 2010. Circinus does not contain any Messier objects. It ...