It’s not surprising that there’s a lot of interest in the topic of getting a good job in astronomy. What sorts of jobs can one get with a degree versus without one? Let’s discuss this on our first Astronomy Coffee Hangout in quite a while.
TRAPPIST-1e is a rocky, close-to-Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone around the ultra-cool dwarf star.
Finding habitable worlds need a dedicated instrument that does nothing else but tries to locate and characterize them. That’s where the Habitable Worlds Observatory comes in
Human beings have discovered over five thousand five hundred exoplanets. Recent observations from TESS found exoplanet with an orbit of 82 days and another measured in hundreds of days.
Astronomers have concluded an observation of Proxima Centauri b and found that the planet does not transit its star
TRAPPIST-1 has held our attention because it has so many rocky worlds orbiting a star that may allow some of them to have liquid water
This planet was discovered by Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey & became the first planet observed by the Kepler with designation Kepler-1b.
Most exoplanets discovered without actually see the planet at all & astronomers are working on starshades to resolve planets directly!
The next big milestone for exoplanets is a telescope that can see beyond beyond the frontiers of our knowledge: The Roman Space Telescope