The VLT UV-Visual Echelle Spectrograph
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The VLT UV-Visual Echelle Spectrograph
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The Big Occulting Steerable Satellite (project)
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Mission designed to provide improved resolution of closely spaced objects with comparable brightnesses (binary stars, microlensing events) & to facilitate separation of dim objects from nearby bright objects (such as planets around stars).
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Arizona Search for Planets (ASP)
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Full scale survey project for extra-solar planets. Overview & publications.
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Transit search
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The purpose of transitsearch.org is to coordinate & direct a cooperative observational effort which will allow experienced amateur astronomers & small college observatories to discover transiting extrasolar planets.
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James Webb Space Telescope
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The JWST is a large, infrared-optimized space telescope designed to study the formation of the first stars & galaxies, the evolution of galaxies & the production of elements by stars, and the process of star & planet formation.
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The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia
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The reference site for astronomer involved in the search for extrasolar planets.
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Space
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Orbits of planets in binary star systems. Java orbit animations & diagrams of stable retrograde planetary orbits not documented anywhere else.
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University of St. Andrews - Planet Search
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Describes many projects aiming to detect extra-solar planets.
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Planet Quest
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A NASA & JPL site in search of another Earth
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About Astronomy & Space - Two Architectures Chosen for Terrestrial Planet Finder
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Discover NASA's plan for advanced telescope searches for Earth-like planets around other stars. Learn about 2 separate missions with distinct designs to achieve the goal.
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Microvariability & Oscillations os STars
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Detection & characterisation of: (1) acoustic oscillations in Sun-like stars, including very old stars (metal-poor subdwarfs) & magnetic stars (roAp), to probe seismically their structures & ages; (2) reflected light from giant exoplanets closely orbiting Sun-like stars, to reveal their sizes & atmospheric compositions; & (3) turbulent variations in massive evolved (Wolf-Rayet) stars to understand how they add gas to the interstellar medium.
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European Extra-Solar Planet Consortium
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EXPORT is a consortium of European astronomers using the telescopes on La Palma & Tenerife to study extra-solar planets, as well as the formation & evolution of protoplanetary systems.
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Darwin Space Inferometer Project (ESA SCIENCE)
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Overview & updates on the ESA's Earth-like planet hunting space-telescope project.
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Planet Quest: Missions - Terrestrial Planet Finder
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Will study all aspects of planets outside the solar system from their formation & development to the presence & features of those planets orbiting the nearest stars.
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Anglo-Australian Planet Search
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Long-term southern hemisphere program being carried with the 3.9 m Anglo-Australian Telescope.
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STellar Astrophysics & Research on Exoplanets
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STARE uses precise time-series photometry to search for extrasolar giant planets transiting their parent stars.
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ExNPS Road Map - August 1996
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NASA Origins program report on the progress & future plans for the discovery of extrasolar planetary systems.
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Extrasolar Visions - An Extrasolar Planets Guide
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Extrasolar Visions - An Extrasolar Planets Guide
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California & Carnegie Planet Search
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The site of California & Carnegie program for extrasolar planet search.
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