Daniel Apai's Blog on Exoplanet Exploration and Astrobiology
On October 4, we had a great evening in Sedona’s Explorers Club Live Event “From the Edge of Space to the Depths of the Ocean”! I spoke about the progress in exoplanet discovery and characterization, and the technological advances that set us on a trajectory toward an exciting future: the Pandora SmallSat (which we are launching…
We just wrapped up a wonderful week in California at the Silver Jubilee of the Summer Sagan School. The school explored exoplanet demographics with many exciting lectures and several hands-on activities and group projects. Many of the lectures and much of the discussion focused on sub-neptunes, an exciting, new type of planets that is absent…