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7 Amazing Exoplanets - Scientific American
Artist Ron Miller takes us on a virtual journey to seven newly discovered exoplanets in this Scientific American interactive presentation.
www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=7-amazing-exoplanets-interactive
Advanced Fiber-Optic Echelle (AFOE)
Spectrograph designed specifically to perform precise stellar radial velocity measurements, and optimized for asteroseismology and extrasolar planet detection.
cfa-www.harvard.edu/afoe
Allegheny Observatory
Extra-solar planet detection and characterization of planetary systems is their primary reserch focus.
www.pitt.edu/~aobsvtry
Anglo-Australian Planet Search (AAPS)
Ong-term program being carried out on the 3.9m Anglo-Australian Telescope to search for giant planets around 200 nearby Solar-type stars with V<7.5.
www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~cgt/planet
Astro-Venture
Allows grade school students to role-play NASA careers, as they search for and design a planet that would be habitable to humans. Highlights NASA careers and astrobiology research in: astronomy, geology, biology, and atmospheric sciences.
www.astroventure.arc.nasa.gov
Catalog of Exoplanets - The Planetary Society
Regularly updated database of all known exoplanets. Answers essential questions about each exoplanet: What is the planet's location and home star? How was it detected? When was it discovered? How many other known planets are orbiting its star?
www.planetary.org/exoplanets
Darwin
A candidate European infrared interferometer in space for characterizing the planetary systems orbiting nearby stars by direct imaging and spectroscopy.
ast.star.rl.ac.uk/darwin
Discovering Planets Beyond - HubbleSite
HubbleSite examines planet formation and how the understanding of this process has allowed us to find numerous other planetary systems under construction.
hubblesite.org/hubble_discoveries/discovering_planets_beyond
ESA Science & Technology: Corot
Mission searching for habitable, Earth-like planets around other stars.
spdext.estec.esa.nl:81/science-e/www/area/index.cfm?fareaid=39
Exoplanet Observing for Amateurs
Downloadable book by Bruce L. Gary. Exoplanet Observing for Amateurs is meant to help amateurs with CCD experience produce high precision light curves.
brucegary.net/book_EOA/x.htm
Exploring New Worlds
Article about how astronomers are puzzling over the formation and evolution of discovered massive planets that closely orbit stars near the solar system. From Science News, August 1998.
astron.berkeley.edu/~gmarcy/science_news_aug98.html
Extrasolar Planets - The Planetary Society
Learn about the search for new planets and life beyond our solar system. Includes news highlighting recent extrasolar planetary discoveries.
www.planetary.org/explore/topics/extrasolar
Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia
Excellent site for those after the facts. In English and French. Includes the Extra-solar Planets Catalog.
exoplanet.eu
Extrasolar Visions
Provides hard data and speculation about extrasolar planets.
www.extrasolar.net
Giant Planets Orbiting Faraway Stars
Article by Geoffrey W. Marcy and R. Paul Butler discussing how extrasolar planets are detected, planetary comparisons, and the future of planet hunting.
astron.berkeley.edu/~gmarcy/sciam.html
Microlensing Planet Search Project (MPS)
Searches for evidence of extra-solar planets using the gravitational microlensing technique.
bustard.phys.nd.edu/MPS
NASA PlanetQuest (2)
Includes news of new planet discoveries, information on the latest extrasolar planet research, and a new worlds atlas.
dir.yahoo.com/.../Extrasolar_Planets/NASA_PlanetQuest
NASA: New Worlds
Describes NASA's discoveries of, and efforts to understand, extrasolar planets.
www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/newworlds/index.html
Newly Discovered Planet May Be First Truly Habitable Exoplanet
Find out how the new planet, Gliese 581g, was discovered and watch a webcast with the team leaders Steven Vogt and Paul Butler. From NSF.
www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=117765
NOVA: Hunt for Alien Worlds
Offers information about the hunt for other worlds, with photos, star maps, links, and more.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/worlds
Other Worlds, Distant Suns
Catalog of extrasolar planets, with observing guides, star maps, astronomical VRMLs, links, and more.
www.astronautica.com/owds.html
PlanetQuest
Nonprofit organization dedicated to cutting edge education and research in the planetary sciences and public participatory discovery of new planets.
www.planetquest.org
ScienceDaily: Extrasolar Planet News
News, videos, images, and links about the discovery of extrasolar planets.
www.sciencedaily.com/news/space_time/extrasolar_planets
Scientific American: A Parade of New Planets
Astronomers are sighting new planets circling distant stars.
www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000BAF7C-7457-1C76-9B81809EC588EF21
Spectrashift.com
Dedicated to amateur radial velocity studies and the search for extrasolar planets.
www.spectrashift.com
SuperWASP
Ultra-wide angle photometric survey of bright stars designed to detect planetary transits and track Near-Earth Objects and optical transients.
www.superwasp.org
Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey (TrES) (1)
Discover sites about a trans-Atlantic effort to locate transiting extrasolar planets.
dir.yahoo.com/.../Extrasolar_Planets/Trans_Atlantic_Exoplanet_Survey__TrES_
Transits of Extrasolar Planets Network (TEP)
Utilizing the transit method, based on the observation of a star's small drop in brightness, that occurs when the orbit of one of the star's planets passes in front of it.
www.iac.es/proyect/tep/tephome.html
Transitsearch.org
Working to coordinate and direct a cooperative observational effort which will allow experienced amateur astronomers and small college observatories to discover transiting extrasolar planets.
www.transitsearch.org
University of California Planet Search Project
Providing both information for both the public and the scientific community. Includes an almanac of planets, team member information, and links.
www.exoplanets.org

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