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Exoplanetology Blog is dedicated to the study of Exoplanets, and the detection of Life in other worlds.
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Ephemeral Worlds: Visualizing Exoplanets with Bubbles
Indeed Exoplanetology is the Art and Science of Exoplanets. These photographs of bubbles provide stunning insights into visualizing and imagining how unseen exoplanets might look like. Consider the fa...
Exosolar Interface
Just came across this neat "exosolar" interface done in flash. Exosolar.net is an astronomy site where you can find about 2000 stars and their components (mostly within 75 lightyears). This flash-base...
What We Still Don't Know (Documentary)
A documentary about searching for the answer to the fascinating question "Are We Alone?" Touches upon Exoplanets and Exobiology. Perfect for Exoplanetology!...
Past Exhibit about Exoplanets @ AMNH
I missed this exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). Its no longer on display but I'm still posting about it anyway as they have this neat informative website about a couple of tool...
Space Matters
Let me tell you a story: I noticed that the exoplanet count on the freebase exoplanet catalogue were bigger than what should be. It should only be 293 as of writing.So I started to check the list on f...
Search for Alien Planets (Documentary)
A documentary about man's Search for Alien Planets - Extrasolar planets....
EXOPLANET FORUM 2008
The Third Annual Forum on Exoplanet Science by NASA is on its closing day. (My apologies; should've posted it much earlier; will do so next time) This year it focuses on seven measurement techniques: ...
The Universe: Alien Planets (Documentary)
The Universe: Alien Planets...
Exoplanetology and Science-Fiction
A nice post about Exoplanets from IO9, one of my favorite sci-fi blogs. It's great to have the Sci-Fi community taking a close watch on developments in Exoplanetology - the Art and Science of Exoplane...
Exoplanet Visualization Tool (exoExplorer coming soon)
I eagerly await this forthcoming Exoplanet Visualization Tool called 'exoExplorer' being developed by the Planetary Biology Team. The software is set to be released in June 2008. From the looks of it,...
Alien Planets
A documentary about the search for exoplanets....
Exoplanet Update for May 2008
And I thought May 2008 was going to end without any exoplanet discovery. Here's the latest stats and info on exoplanet discoveries for May 2008:Three new exoplanets come from the COROT mission, and on...
Extrasolarise
Awesome rendition of a 'sunrise' on Gliese 876d. And because it's a sunrise on an exoplanet, I will coin a new word for it - Extrasolarise.Many thanks to APOD for featuring this photo. And kudos to I...
Flood of Marvelous new Exoplanets to begin this Fall 2008
What a nice acronym for a project that will bring us marvelous new worlds to thinker with. This coming fall, astronomers will start a massive search for new planets by observing about 11,000 nearby st...
Exoplanetary Plants
Photo Credit: Alien Plant by Conradh on Flickr.We have often set our imaginations on discovering animal-like creatures on other worlds. Yet the first forms of life that we might likely find are alien ...
Exoplanetology Trends, Statistics, Charts and Graphs
I played around with Trendrr and the 3 graphs you see are the new Exoplanets discovered per month for 2008, Total new exoplanets in 2008, and a mashup of the previous two charts.Trendrr is a new site ...
No Joke: 10 New Exoplanets for April 1st!
WASP-3b: One of the Extrasolar planets discovered by SuperWASP. WASP-3b is one of hottest exoplanets ever detected. It was discovered in 2007.No, this is not an April fools day joke: 10 new Exoplanets...
What's in an exoplanet's name?
As I imported the names of all the known exoplanets into freebase, the pattern was very apparent. In most cases, Exoplanets are named after their parent star, such as 51 Pegasi b, where the parent sta...
List of Exoplanet Catalogues
Below is a list of Exoplanet Catalogues. A list of lists, a Meta-Catalogue of Exoplanets. I will continually update this particular post as I come across new ones. Extrasolar Planets EncyclopaediaURL:...
Google Enters the Field of Exoplanetology
Google joins the the hunt for exoplanets by funding the development of the wide-field digital cameras needed for the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). TESS, a satellite-based observatory f...
Habitable Zone: Starting from Home
We had to start somewhere. In trying to determine where life might likely arise in other parts of the universe, a guide and yardstick had to be set. Where else should we begin with but home? Such is w...
Do not be afraid of Math
I love this interview of a planet-hunter named Rachel Akeson, who uses the Keck Telescopes in Mauna Kea to hunt for exoplanets. Her advise to enthusiasts on planet-hunting resonates with me. When aske...
Exoplanetology and The Encyclopedia of Life
I learned today about the launching of a new science website, The Encyclopedia of Life (eol.org). Its a very promising site.In connection to the Exoplanetology.com website and blog which I launched ju...
Forecast: A Deluge of Exoplanets To Be Discovered in 2008
This is the Golden Age of Exoplanetology and Planetary Science. For this year, we might see at least more than 60 new Exoplanets yet to be discovered before the end of 2008. The chart shows the number...
Online Telescopes for Astronomers (and Planet-Hunters, maybe)
The latest issue of Wired Magazine (March 2008, page 060) featured 4 online telescopes for the "urban astro-nerds". Its been said that you can control these telescopes remotely from the web and order ...
On Exoplanets (downloadable cribsheet)
Here's a great cribsheet from Seed Magazine all about exoplanets and some popular methods of detecting them such as Radial Velocity, Gravitational Microlensing and Planetary Transit Technique. A thing...