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  1. Cogburn, Cameron

    ... cogburn@mit.edu Student Exoplanets Education:  B.A., Physics, Cornell University, 2008 ...

    Anonymous - 2013-03-19 23:22

  2. Deck, Katherine M.

    ... kdeck@mit.edu Student Exoplanets Education:  B.S., Astronomy, B.S. Physics, UC ...

    Anonymous - 2013-03-19 23:26

  3. Essick, Reed C.

    ... Strong Gravity & Gravitational Radiation Exoplanets Education:  B.S., Mechancial Engineering with a ...

    Anonymous - 2013-02-23 22:49

  4. In a first, astronomers detect strong winds on an exoplanet

    ... some of the molecules that make up the atmospheres of some exoplanets, many mysteries about their formation and evolution remain. A ... June 24 in Nature , will guide future research on exoplanets, since understanding the properties of a planet’s atmosphere is a ...

    siteadmin - 2013-02-26 18:50

  5. MIT’s TESS project awarded $1 million NASA grant

    ... to perform an all-sky survey to discover transiting exoplanets, ranging from Earth-sized to gas giants, in orbit around the nearest ... telescopes have revealed many details about transiting exoplanets, from their orbits to their atmospheres and compositions. However, ...

    siteadmin - 2012-11-01 18:09

  6. NASA selects MIT-led TESS project for 2017 mission

    ... cameras to perform an all-sky survey to discover transiting exoplanets, ranging from Earth-sized planets to gas giants, in orbit around the ... with ground-based telescopes have mainly picked out giant exoplanets. NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has recently uncovered the existence of ...

    siteadmin - 2013-04-09 09:48

  7. Explained: the Doppler effect

    ... effect to detect planets outside of our solar system, or exoplanets. To date, 442 of the 473 known exoplanets have been detected using the Doppler effect, which also helps ...

    siteadmin - 2013-02-26 18:50

  8. Building a list of Earth candidates

    ... made the search for planets outside of our solar system, or exoplanets, one of the hottest research areas in physical science. This ... find an Earth twin and the effort to make sense of the 500 exoplanets that have been discovered since 1995. I n September, ...

    siteadmin - 2013-02-26 18:50

  9. New five-planet system contains two that are in the ‘habitable zone’

    ... its gaze on a wide swath of the sky to identify Earth-sized exoplanets. Josh Winn, the Class of 1942 Career Development Associate Professor ... of News Item:  Friday, April 19, 2013 Exoplanets Faculty Kavli Institute Kepler spacecraft ...

    siteadmin - 2013-04-22 16:40

  10. Newfound exoplanet may turn to dust

    ... Astronomers using the Kepler satellite typically identify exoplanets by looking for regular dips in a star’s brightness. For example, ... 18, 2012 Astronomy Astrophysics Exoplanets Kavli Institute Kepler spacecraft NASA ...

    siteadmin - 2012-11-01 18:09