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1. A far-off solar system

   ... keeping within the same sprawling plane. In contrast, most exoplanets discovered in recent years — particularly the giants known as ... Wednesday, July 25, 2012 Astronomy Exoplanets Kavli Institute Orbits Physics Planetary ...

   siteadmin - 2012-11-01 18:09

2. First light from a super-Earth spotted

   ... group’s techniques may be adopted to characterize other exoplanets in the universe — even, perhaps, those as small as Earth. ... discover one, you want to find more. And there are a lot of exoplanets out there.” The research is based on observations made with ...

   siteadmin - 2012-11-01 18:09

3. Searching for solar systems like our own

   ... Associate Professor of Physics at MIT, searches for exoplanets — planets outside the solar system that revolve around far-off ... Short Description:  Josh Winn’s hunt for exoplanets may someday reveal habitable, Earth-like worlds. URL:  ...

   siteadmin - 2013-04-10 16:21

4. Waking up to a new year

   ... short-period planets. Winn’s group is now looking for exoplanets that orbit brown dwarfs — cold, almost-dead stars that somehow ... News Item:  Monday, August 19, 2013 Exoplanets Kavli Institute Kepler spacecraft Physics ...

   siteadmin - 2013-08-19 14:33

5. Introducing Zachory Berta-Thompson, Torres Postdoctoral Fellow

   ... the physical properties of super-Earth and sub-Neptune exoplanets in an effort to understand the composition, evolution, and origins ... develop a survey called the MEarth Project  to find exoplanets transiting the closest, smallest stars in the Galaxy. MEarth's first ...

   Debbie Meinbresse - 2013-09-05 21:21

6. The Kepler Cluster Study: Planets and Gyrochronology (Speaker: Soren Meibom)

   ... Kepler mission have lead to breakthrough in the search for exoplanets in star clusters and have begun a new era in the study of stellar ... as part of the Kepler mission to search for transiting exoplanets in open star clusters and to study the dependencies of stellar ...

   Anonymous - 2013-09-11 21:05

7. History

   ... and Weiss, R. 1973 Phys Rev D 7, 326       Exoplanets The Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at MIT had long ... feasible in the mid 1990s. MIT involvement in the field of exoplanets took a quantum leap with the hire of two faculty, one in Physics in ...

   siteadmin - 2013-09-18 16:23

8. PHYSICS SPOTLIGHT: Sara Seager wins MacArthur 'genius grant'

   ... community. A mere hypothesis until the mid-1990s, nearly 900 exoplanets in more than 600 planetary systems have since been identified, with ...

   Debbie Meinbresse - 2013-09-25 12:23

9. Job Opportunities & Fellowships

   ... of Astrophysics, with a preference for candidates studying exoplanets. The MIT-Kavli Postdoctoral Fellowship in Astrophysics is ...

   siteadmin - 2013-09-23 13:30