Lab Chief:
Jennifer Wiseman
Code 667
NASA's GSFC
Greenbelt, MD 20771
Laboratory News
Recent publications include:
The Spitzer Space Telescope has captured for the first time enough light from planets outside our solar system to identify molecules in their
atmospheres. The landmark achievement is a significant step toward being able to detect possible life on rocky exoplanets and comes years before astronomers had
anticipated.
+ Read the NASA press release featuring work done by Jeremy Richardson
Scientists have found that a nearby two-star system contains a precursor to a Type Ia supernova, an important class of star explosions used to measure the expansion
rate of the universe. The observations may help scientists understand how Type Ia supernovae work.
+ Read the NASA press release featuring work done by Richard Barry
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The debris ring around Fomalhaut imaged with the Advanced Camera for Surveys on
the Hubble Space Telescope. (NASA, ESA, P. Kalas and
J. Graham, University of California, Berkeley, and M. Clampin, Goddard Space Flight
Center).
Artist's concept of the two Terrestrial Planet Finder
Missions, designed to search for
Earth-like planets around nearby stars.
Globular Cluster M2 imaged with GALEX.
Secondary Eclipse of Transiting Planet HD 209458b measured with IRAC. Press
Release (NASA, D. Deming,
Goddard Space Flight Center)
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ExoPlanets and Stellar Astrophysics Laboratory
We study the formation and evolution of stars and planetary systems
using advanced telescopes and theoretical techniques.
We develop new technology and ideas that help us understand
our place in the universe and conduct searches for Earth-like planets and
habitable environments around other stars.
Astrophysical Research:
Extrasolar Planets, Debris Disks, Young Stellar Objects, Stellar Astrophysics, Theory,
Instrumentation
Missions and Programs:
TPF, EPIC, FKSI, MPF, SI, JWST, WFC3, STIS, IRAC, FIT, UV Detectors
Staff
Links
Exoplanet Task Force White Papers
Our Exoplanets
Seminar Series meets Thursdays at noon in Build. 21, Rm. 183.
Interested in joining our team?
Apply for a NASA Postdoctoral
Program (NPP) fellowship, a NASA Graduate Student fellowship or for a
Michelson fellowship.
Next due dates: Nov 1 (NPP), Nov 2 (Michelson).
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