January 30th: “The New Worlds Observer: A Mission to Open Up Detailed Study of Planetary Systems” NAI will be broadcasting this virtual seminar over the web at 2pm MST on […]
Exoplanets, -moons, -comets
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NAI Director's Seminar: The Effect of Protoplanetary Disk Dispersal on Planet Formation
Join us for the next NAI Director’s Seminar on Monday, February 4th at 11am PST. The seminar, “The Effect of Protoplanetary Disk Dispersal on Planet Formation,” will be given by […]
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Gliese 581: one planet might indeed be habitable
In April, a European team of astronomers announced in Astronomy & Astrophysics the discovery of two possibly habitable Earth-like planets. A&A is now publishing two independent, detailed studies of this […]
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Binary Stars in the Orion Nebula
Researchers from NAI’s University of Hawai’i Team have a new paper in The Astronomical Journal describing a major survey of visual binaries toward the Orion Nebula Cluster. The team used […]
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NAI Director's Seminar: "Getting to the Core of Exoplanets: From Gas to Ice Giants"
Speaker: Geoff Marcy (University of California, Berkeley) Date/Time: Monday, December 3, 2007 11:00 AM PST The measured masses and orbits of the 200 secure exoplanets within 200 parsecs reveal the […]
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Discovering Earth-like Exoplanets
In Science, astrobiologists from NAI’s University of Hawai’i Team review the prospects for discovering smaller planets more like Earth, some of which may even have conditions suitable for life. Improved […]
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Water Vapor Observed in Young Star System
NAI Postdoctoral Fellow Elise Furlan from NAI’s UCLA Team is co-author on a new paper in Nature reporting the development of a protoplanetary disk. Using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, observations […]
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NAI Scientists Help Discover Water Vapor in Exoplanet Atmosphere
An international team of researchers, including members of NASA Astrobiology Institute’s (NAI) Virtual Planetary Laboratory team used NASA’s Spitzer Space telescope to detect the presence of water vapor on the […]
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Water Vapor Detected on Extrasolar Planet
An international team of researchers including members of NAI’s Virtual Planetary Laboratory Team have, using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, detected the presence of water vapor on the hot jupiter HD […]
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Habitable Planets Circling Proxima Centauri?
A Habitable Earth, Systemic: “There remain three blockbuster, front-page discoveries in exoplanetary science. The first is the identification of a potentially habitable Earth-mass planet around another star. The second is […]