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An exceptional planetary system discovered in Cassiopeia
Astronomers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and members of the NCCR PlanetS have teased out a secret planetary system hiding in the arms of Cassiopea, just 21 light years away from us. The remarkable system, named HD219134, hosts one outer giant planet and three inner super-Earths, one of which transits in front of the […]
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A planet disguised as a comet
Astronomers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and members of the NCCR -for National Centre of Competence in Research- PlanetS disco- vered an immense cloud of hydrogen escaping from an exoplanet the size of Neptune. This phenomenon generates like a tail or a head of hair giving it the appearance of a giant comet. Already […]
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Between heaven and earth
The Arte television channel aired Tuesday, May 26 at 17:45 a 25 minute documentary on the search for exoplanets. We visit with astronomers (as Aurélien Wyttenbach of Geneva observatory) the high places of planetary science as Euler Swiss telescope at La Silla or 3.6m of ESO where HARPS is installed also at La Silla. […]
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The spectrum of 51peg b 20 years after
51pegb: 20 years after its discovery, astronomers have managed to obtain its spectrum. Remarkable success of an international team of astronomers including members of PlanetS: they got for the first time a spectrum of light reflected from an exoplanet; and not just any one but 51pegb, the first around a sun like star discovered […]
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Planetary system of the month
In order to show the extraordinary diversity of planetary systems (multiple or single) discovered to date, PlanetS offers once a month to immerse yourself in one of these new worlds. First we offer a simple animation in which you can change certain settings such as the angle of view, the rotation speed or the visual […]
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Big crowd at the museum
500 people! Never before hosted the Natural History Museum of Geneva so many people for an opening of a temporary exhibition. Even tough it is the largest exhibition ever presented by the Museum, it is doubtless the topic of exoplanets that attracted such a crowd on the 21st of March 2015. Who never dreamed of […]
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K2, the fixed version of Kepler, and Harps-N dicovered a new super-Earth.
Geneva astronomers, members of an international team and the Nccr PlanetS, discovered a super-Earth thank to Harps-N and the repaird version of the satelite Kepler. Kepler has been fixed lately by the Nasa using the solar rays to replace the gyroscopic wheel which failed last year. It’s the first planet detected by this new mission […]
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The hunt for exo-Earth liveable is open.
The vacuum tank of ESPRESSO The Geneva observatory received the vacuum tank Stunned for Wins ESPRESSO, DE the new spectrometer which wholesale mlb jerseys should allow to discover planets like the Earth in liveable region. ESPRESSO will cheap mlb jerseys be able cheap mlb jerseys to measure radial velocitie up to 0,1m/s which corresponds to […]
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