PlanetQuest
- Now we've got a GIANT (biggest yet) planet that orbits the wrong way! The universe is apparently full of bad drivers. http://is.gd/2fz9u12:26 PM Aug 13th from twhirl
- Wild week for exoplanets...first there was the planet train wreck discovered by Spitzer... http://is.gd/2fyU212:21 PM Aug 13th from twhirl
- @Adriana_Raven You just need the main Yahoo widgets program - http://widgets.yahoo.com/up... - download it there.12:20 PM Aug 13th from twhirl in reply to Adriana_Raven
- @LJespersen Transiting planets are already really difficult to find, so a multi-planet system w/ 1 trans. planet is like winning the lotto!12:18 PM Aug 13th from twhirl in reply to LJespersen
- @justinf If you go to : http://is.gd/2fyvr, you can look up just about any planet and find its constellation, plus a bunch of other info....12:15 PM Aug 13th from twhirl in reply to justinf
- In this case,"b" is a roasting hot Jupiter with a 3-day orbit, and "c" is a portly 15xJupiter-mass planet with a super-eccentric orbit.5:13 PM Aug 3rd from twhirl
- HAT-13-b and c have people pretty excited-it's the first time a multi-planet system with one transiting planet has been discovered!5:11 PM Aug 3rd from twhirl
- @justinf HD 16760 could be a brown dwarf, which is bigger than a planet, but not quite massive enough to fuse hydrogen like a star.5:03 PM Aug 3rd from twhirl in reply to justinf
- Another new one, HD 110014b, is a little bit smaller @ 11 Jup masses, and has a pretty eccentric, egg-shaped orbit around its star.4:52 PM Aug 3rd from twhirl
- New planets! HD 16760 is a whopping 14-Jupiter mass planet with a year about 100 days longer than Earth's. Massive!4:45 PM Aug 3rd from twhirl
- Interviewed Greg Laughlin about a planet that might serve as an extra gas tank that'll reignite its star...it's the top story on PlanetQuest10:56 AM Jul 27th from twhirl
- @buffalodavid Right on!10:54 AM Jul 27th from twhirl in reply to buffalodavid
- Anybody checked out Greg Laughlin's blog at oklo.org? It's dope...well-written, cool photos, and lots of stuff to ponder....11:01 AM Jul 13th from twhirl
- Also had some folks announce that they'd observed the phases of an exoplanet as it orbited in front of and then behind its host star...whoa!9:53 AM Jul 6th from twhirl
- PlanetQuest isn't dead! We've had a few new planet additions, and some interesting finds...like an exoplanet in Andromeda...maybe???9:45 AM Jul 6th from twhirl
- Astrometry is a technique where astronomers watch very closely the motions of a star on the sky, looking for the pull of an exoplanet.3:49 PM May 28th from twhirl
- It's been quiet lately, but here's some big news...astronomers find planets using astrometry for the first time, way cool! http://is.gd/IuOs3:48 PM May 28th from twhirl
- Props to everyone who came to the JPL Open House! Esp. the RoboDome line survivors...a little video from inside the dome: http://is.gd/xhrz11:26 AM May 6th from twhirl
- Fun fact, HAT-P-12 b's transit was also detected by an amateur astronomer in Portugal...lots of people getting in on the planet hunt!11:19 AM May 6th from twhirl
- @kabi_tanti This page: http://is.gd/xhiC and this page: http://is.gd/xhkQ have all the details we have about the planet so far.11:18 AM May 6th from twhirl in reply to kabi_world
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- Name JPL PlanetQuest
- Location Pasadena, California
- Bio Keep track of the latest exoplanet news!
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