Exoplanet Exploration by ELLA DORFMAN https://padlet.com/1402293/4itd2r4j6fql en-us 2020-03-12 18:19:08 UTC 2025-12-24 17:06:29 UTC hello@padlet.com What is an exoplanet? 1402293 https://padlet.com/1402293/4itd2r4j6fql/wish/459703226 An exoplanet is a planet outside our solar system orbiting around a star. Exoplanetology is the study of exoplanets.]]> 2020-03-13 05:38:11 UTC https://padlet.com/1402293/4itd2r4j6fql/wish/459703226 Importance of Exoplanets 1402293 https://padlet.com/1402293/4itd2r4j6fql/wish/459704944 • Gives hope of inhabitable planets similar to Earth
• Other forms of life
• We can expand our knowledge about the universe
• We can possibly investigate more about how our solar system came to existence]]> 2020-03-13 05:48:02 UTC https://padlet.com/1402293/4itd2r4j6fql/wish/459704944 NASA’S Exoplanet Discoveries 1402293 https://padlet.com/1402293/4itd2r4j6fql/wish/459706642 2020-03-13 05:58:10 UTC https://padlet.com/1402293/4itd2r4j6fql/wish/459706642 Methods Exoplanets are Uncovered 1402293 https://padlet.com/1402293/4itd2r4j6fql/wish/459706786 2020-03-13 05:58:57 UTC https://padlet.com/1402293/4itd2r4j6fql/wish/459706786 Summary 1402293 https://padlet.com/1402293/4itd2r4j6fql/wish/459707174 2020-03-13 06:00:59 UTC https://padlet.com/1402293/4itd2r4j6fql/wish/459707174 Bibliography 1402293 https://padlet.com/1402293/4itd2r4j6fql/wish/459707449 2020-03-13 06:02:36 UTC https://padlet.com/1402293/4itd2r4j6fql/wish/459707449 Radical Velocity 1402293 https://padlet.com/1402293/4itd2r4j6fql/wish/460170459  When a star moves with the gravitational pull of its planet, the star's light becomes a brighter and different color.]]> 2020-03-13 17:08:16 UTC https://padlet.com/1402293/4itd2r4j6fql/wish/460170459 Transit Photometry 1402293 https://padlet.com/1402293/4itd2r4j6fql/wish/460171174 When a planet comes between a star and Earth when orbiting, the star’s light is blocked]]> 2020-03-13 17:09:05 UTC https://padlet.com/1402293/4itd2r4j6fql/wish/460171174 Microlensing 1402293 https://padlet.com/1402293/4itd2r4j6fql/wish/460172117 When gravity affects light from a star far away as a planet passes through the star and us.]]> 2020-03-13 17:10:03 UTC https://padlet.com/1402293/4itd2r4j6fql/wish/460172117 Astrometry 1402293 https://padlet.com/1402293/4itd2r4j6fql/wish/460172743 The movement of the star in relation to other stars is tracked.]]> 2020-03-13 17:10:45 UTC https://padlet.com/1402293/4itd2r4j6fql/wish/460172743 Direct Imaging 1402293 https://padlet.com/1402293/4itd2r4j6fql/wish/460173455 When pictures of an exoplanet and its star and taken and tracked.]]> 2020-03-13 17:11:34 UTC https://padlet.com/1402293/4itd2r4j6fql/wish/460173455 Phase Curves 1402293 https://padlet.com/1402293/4itd2r4j6fql/wish/460174323 When a planet doesn’t come directly between its star and Earth, but it still affects the lighting indirectly.]]> 2020-03-13 17:12:32 UTC https://padlet.com/1402293/4itd2r4j6fql/wish/460174323 Timing Variations 1402293 https://padlet.com/1402293/4itd2r4j6fql/wish/460174968 When planets’ gravitational pulls have effects on the timing of occasions that are anticipated.]]> 2020-03-13 17:13:16 UTC https://padlet.com/1402293/4itd2r4j6fql/wish/460174968 Instruments and Missions for Exoplanets 1402293 https://padlet.com/1402293/4itd2r4j6fql/wish/460176434 2020-03-13 17:14:59 UTC https://padlet.com/1402293/4itd2r4j6fql/wish/460176434 NN-Explore 1402293 https://padlet.com/1402293/4itd2r4j6fql/wish/460178162 NN-Explore is a collaboration of NASA and the National Science Foundation helping astronomers continue their research on exoplanetology. ]]> 2020-03-13 17:16:58 UTC https://padlet.com/1402293/4itd2r4j6fql/wish/460178162 K2 1402293 https://padlet.com/1402293/4itd2r4j6fql/wish/460179123 Launched to observe over one-hundred thousand stars for any connection to exoplanets. ]]> 2020-03-13 17:18:03 UTC https://padlet.com/1402293/4itd2r4j6fql/wish/460179123 Kepler Spacecraft 1402293 https://padlet.com/1402293/4itd2r4j6fql/wish/460179821 Uncovered more than two-thousand six hundred exoplanets.]]> 2020-03-13 17:18:53 UTC https://padlet.com/1402293/4itd2r4j6fql/wish/460179821 LBTI (Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer) 1402293 https://padlet.com/1402293/4itd2r4j6fql/wish/460180600  The LBTI uses telescope mirrors to gauge galaxies, stars, and the residue of potential exoplanets encompassing.

]]> 2020-03-13 17:19:47 UTC https://padlet.com/1402293/4itd2r4j6fql/wish/460180600 Hubble Telescope 1402293 https://padlet.com/1402293/4itd2r4j6fql/wish/460181806 First telescope to directly study an exoplanet's atmosphere and label its composition.]]> 2020-03-13 17:21:12 UTC https://padlet.com/1402293/4itd2r4j6fql/wish/460181806 Habitability of Exoplanets 1402293 https://padlet.com/1402293/4itd2r4j6fql/wish/460188052 The distance of the planet from its star must be not too close but not too far away- a perfect distance for water to be present. Average stars’ distance of habitability is able to be estimated, but it’s size and components affect the zone of habitation. The star must live out long enough for life like humans to develop, ideally the amount of time our Sun carries on. 

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