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The VLT UV-Visual Echelle Spectrograph -- The VLT UV-Visual Echelle Spectrograph Visit

The Big Occulting Steerable Satellite (project) -- 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). Visit

Arizona Search for Planets (ASP) -- Full scale survey project for extra-solar planets. Overview & publications. Visit

Transit search -- 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. Visit

James Webb Space Telescope -- 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. Visit

The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia -- The reference site for astronomer involved in the search for extrasolar planets. Visit

Space -- Orbits of planets in binary star systems. Java orbit animations & diagrams of stable retrograde planetary orbits not documented anywhere else. Visit

University of St. Andrews - Planet Search -- Describes many projects aiming to detect extra-solar planets. Visit

Planet Quest -- A NASA & JPL site in search of another Earth Visit

About Astronomy & Space - Two Architectures Chosen for Terrestrial Planet Finder -- 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. Visit

Microvariability & Oscillations os STars -- 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. Visit

European Extra-Solar Planet Consortium -- 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. Visit

Darwin Space Inferometer Project (ESA SCIENCE) -- Overview & updates on the ESA's Earth-like planet hunting space-telescope project. Visit

Planet Quest: Missions - Terrestrial Planet Finder -- 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. Visit

Anglo-Australian Planet Search -- Long-term southern hemisphere program being carried with the 3.9 m Anglo-Australian Telescope. Visit

STellar Astrophysics & Research on Exoplanets -- STARE uses precise time-series photometry to search for extrasolar giant planets transiting their parent stars. Visit

ExNPS Road Map - August 1996 -- NASA Origins program report on the progress & future plans for the discovery of extrasolar planetary systems. Visit

Extrasolar Visions - An Extrasolar Planets Guide -- Extrasolar Visions - An Extrasolar Planets Guide Visit

California & Carnegie Planet Search -- The site of California & Carnegie program for extrasolar planet search. Visit

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