Exciting news for planet hunters: Working with the 8m Subaru telescope at Mauna Kea the international SEEDS team announced the exciting discovery of a new directly imaged planet – this new planet is exciting not only because very few planets have been directly imaged yet, but also because this one is different from all others…
The Substellar Zoo: From Brown Dwarfs to Super-Earths
I particularly like Frost’s illustration from 1846 which shows how planetary systems were thought to look like in a post-Newtonian universe: in essence, Frost’s universe is filled with copies of the solar system – planets orbit each star. Interestingly, 130 years later the Star Wars universe was not that different: the desert planet Tatooine, the…
Proto-blog
Posted on Author Daniel ApaiPosted in Astrobiology, Exoplanet Discoveries, Exoplanet Exploration1 Reply
I am working on setting up the Distant Earths blog. You will find here news and views on the search for life beyond the solar system, extrasolar planets, and astrobiology.