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Janos Haits

Magellan Planet Search Program - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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    "The Magellan Planet Search Program is a ground based extrasolar planet search device which began gathering data in December 2002. It utilizes the MIKE echelle spectrograph mounted on the Magellan Telescopes which are twin, 6.5m Magellan II (Clay) telescope located within the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile.[1][2]"
Astro Biology

NASA Research Alien Life - 0 views

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    Astronomers searching the atmospheres of alien worlds for gases that might be produced by life can't rely on the detection of just one type.
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    Astronomers searching the atmospheres of alien worlds for gases that might be produced by life can't rely on the detection of just one type.
Todd Suomela

SAO/NASA ADS: ADS Home Page - 0 views

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    The SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a Digital Library portal for researchers in Astronomy and Physics, operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) under a NASA grant. The ADS maintains three bibliographic databases containing more than 6.9 million records: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Physics, and arXiv e-prints. The main body of data in the ADS consists of bibliographic records, which are searchable through highly customizable query forms, and full-text scans of much of the astronomical literature which can be browsed or searched via our full-text search interface. Integrated in its databases, the ADS provides access and pointers to a wealth of external resources, including electronic articles, data catalogs and archives. We currently have links to over 7.6 million records maintained by our collaborators.
Janos Haits

PALE RED DOT | A search for Earth-like planets around Proxima Centauri - 0 views

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    "A search for Earth-like planets around Proxima Centauri"
Janos Haits

List of exoplanet search projects - Wikipedia - 0 views

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    "List of exoplanet search projects"
Janos Haits

SETILive - 1 views

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    SETILive is taking the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) directly to you by presenting radio frequency signals LIVE from the SETI Institute's Allen Telescope Array (ATA) while it's pointed at stars that, based on Kepler exoplanet discoveries, have the best chances of being home to an alien civilization. We'll also be putting you "in the loop" where if enough of you see a potential extraterrestrial (ET) signal in the same data, then within minutes, the ATA will be interrupted and sent back to take a second look. The data you see will be from frequencies where human-made Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) crowds them and we believe the human eye will have a better chance than SETI's computer algorithms to find ET signals there.
Janos Haits

SDSS-III - 0 views

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    Building on the legacy of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and SDSS-II, the SDSS-III Collaboration is working to map the Milky Way, search for extrasolar planets, and solve the mystery of dark energy.
Janos Haits

Welcome to the NASA Star and Exoplanet Database - 1 views

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    he NASA Star and Exoplanet Database (NStED) collects and serves public data to support the search for and characterization of extra-solar planets (exoplanets) and their host stars. The data include published light curves, images, spectra and parameters, and time-series data from surveys that aim to discover transiting exoplanets. All data are validated by the NStED science staff and traced to their sources. NStED is the U.S. data portal for the CoRoT mission.
The Ravine / Joseph Dunphy

Neave Planetarium ...the sky in your web browser - 0 views

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    It's a cute graphic, but not much more than that. You move the cursor and the simulated night sky moves in response - and it's a great example of how the Internet can take us in the wrong direction. Do you remember kids getting books and ... gasp ... going outdoors at night, looking upward and finding those constellations, instead of searching for them on an animation?
Janos Haits

Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics - 1 views

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    This unique resource covers the entire field of astronomy and astrophysics and this online version includes the full text of over 2,750 articles, plus sophisticated search and retrieval functionality, links to the primary literature, and is frequently updated with new material. An active editorial team, headed by the Encyclopedia's editor-in-chief, Paul Murdin, oversees the continual commissioning, reviewing and loading of new and revised content.
Janos Haits

Project EDEN - 0 views

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    'Project EDEN exploits state-of-the-art knowledge and methods in astrophysics, planetary sciences, and astrobiology to search for and characterize the closest habitable worlds.'
Janos Haits

The Habitable Exoplanets Catalog - Planetary Habitability Laboratory @ UPR Arecibo - 1 views

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    "The Habitable Exoplanets Catalog (HEC) is an online database of potentially habitable worlds discoveries for scientists, educators, and the general public. The catalog identifies, classifies, and compares exoplanets of interest for the search for life in the universe. There is no guarantee that any of these worlds are habitable since we know very little of them now. The catalog is maintained by the Planetary Habitability Laboratory @ UPR Arecibo and is updated as new data is available."
Janos Haits

SDSS-III - 1 views

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    "Building on the Legacy of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and SDSS-II, the SDSS-III Collaboration is working to map the Milky Way, search for extrasolar planets, and solve the mystery of dark energy."
Todd Suomela

Guest Post: Evalyn Gates on Cosmic Magnification (or - Invasion of the Giant Blue Space... - 0 views

  • This is not just a pretty picture, however – the image packs a lot of scientific information. The authors extract the mass distribution in the cluster (which has implications for cosmological models), measure the mass-to-light ratio of the bright galaxy in the center of the cluster, and use the magnifying power of the lens to search for even more distant galaxies. The basic idea is to construct a model of the lens, starting with the cluster galaxies and a dark matter halo; then refine the model to reproduce the multiple images that are seen. Using this refined model it’s possible to predict the location of additional images of a given source, and to identify regions of high magnification that can then be examined for multiple images of other sources. Any additional images that are found can be used to further refine the model and so on.
  • This galaxy has been lensed by the warp in spacetime created by the cluster. Light from the galaxy, which lies almost directly behind the center of the cluster but much farther away from us, travels along several curved paths through the cluster lens, producing multiple magnified images of the galaxy. The inset box shows a computer generated model of the unlensed source galaxy, enlarged by a factor of four so that the details, including the spiral arm structure, are visible. Without the lensing power of the cluster, we would see this galaxy as a single small blue smudge. In general, lensing will both magnify and distort (shear) images of a background source. This lens is fairly unique in that we see large but relatively intact images of the spiral galaxy, which implies that the mass distribution in the central region of the cluster must be nearly uniform.
Sandra Flores

Back on The Ground - 0 views

Furnace starts trial operationThe German ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst is now back on the ground, the commissioning of an assembled by him on the ISS furnace for experiments in materials science, h...

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Sandra Flores

Life will Always find a Way ??? - 0 views

Age Mild universeIf you follow the calculations of Piran and Jimenez, the universe is so mild in old age. About five billion years gamma-ray bursts were so frequent that they had never allowed the ...

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