- European Extra-Solar Planet Consortium
EXPORT is a consortium of European astronomers using the telescopes on La Palma and Tenerife to study extra-solar planets, as well as the formation and evolution of protoplanetary systems.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It - Extrasolar Planet Detection with the AFOE
Extrasolar Planet Detection with the AFOE The Advanced Fiber-Optic Echelle (AFOE) spectrometer is a fiber-fed, bench-mounted echelle spectrograph, located at the 1.5m telescope of the Whipple Observatory, near Tucson, Arizona.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It - Full-sky Astrometric Mapping Explorer
FAME is an astrometric satellite designed to determine with unprecedented accuracy the positions, distances, and motions of 40 million stars within our galactic neighborhood. It is a collaborative effort between the U.S. Naval Observatory (USNO) and several other institutions.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It - James Webb Space Telescope
The James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, is a large, infrared-optimized space telescope designed to study the formation of the first stars and galaxies, the evolution of galaxies and the production of elements by stars, and the process of star and planet formation.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It - Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics
The Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics (MOA) Project is a joint Japanese/New Zealand experiment established in 1995 to carry out astrophysical observations from New Zealand using `gravitational microlensing' and related techniques.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It - Microvariability and Oscillations os STars
Detection and characterisation of: (1) acoustic oscillations in Sun-like stars, including very old stars (metal-poor subdwarfs) and magnetic stars (roAp), to probe seismically their structures and ages; (2) reflected light from giant exoplanets closely orbiting Sun-like stars, to reveal their sizes and atmospheric compositions; and (3) turbulent variations in massive evolved (Wolf-Rayet) stars to understand how they add gas to the interstellar medium.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It - Planet Quest: Missions - Terrestrial Planet Finder
The Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) will study all aspects of planets outside our solar system: from their formation and development in disks of dust and gas around newly forming stars to the presence and features of those planets orbiting the nearest stars; from the numbers at various sizes and places to their suitability as an abode for life.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It - The Big Occulting Steerable Satellite (project)
The Big Occulting Steerable Satellite (BOSS) mission is designed to provide improved resolution of closely spaced objects with comparable brightnesses (binary stars, microlensing events, ...) and to facilitate separation of dim objects from nearby bright objects (such as planets around stars)
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It - The Kepler Mission
A NASA mission dedicated to discovery of planets around others stars through observation of planets transits.
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