In an exciting discovery, water vapor has been found in the atmosphere of a distant exoplanet planet known as K2-18b, which is 110 light years from Earth in the constellation Leo.
Tag: extrasolar
Sep 26th: Bringing the Planetology Home
Join us today and listen to Astronomy Without a Telescope series as @CheapAstro finds an exoplanet that’s strangely familiar. #365DaysOfAstro
Aug 17th: How to Measure Exoplanet Transit Light Curves with Amateur Telescopes
How to Measure Exoplanet Transit Light Curves with Amateur Telescopes. More with @DeepAstronomy at #365DaysOfAstro
Jun 22nd: Finding Dipper Stars while looking for Exoplanets
Cosmic chronicles the invention of radial velocity spectrometer around 1868 & how it lead to the search for extrasolar planets.
Jul 14th: Encore: NEID: A Precision Spectometer For Exoplanet Research
NEID spectrometer is being installed and it will soon start to search for exoplanets by using the Doppler, or Radial Velocity (RV), effect.