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Discover exoplanets while playing
Two years ago, the Icelandic company CCP, which markets and operates the EveOnline galactic conquest game, launched the “project discovery”, a concept of citizen science included in the game. Using the star light curves taken by the European CoRoT satellite (COnvection, ROtation et Transits), the goal was to try to discover periodic decreases in the […]
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When science meets fiction
The NCCR PlanetS has been participating to several public events since its creation. Amongst them, there is one which has been recurrent, and this year was no exception… It is not the most obvious one to go to, but over the years, it has established itself as a landmark as it has always been a […]
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Highlights of recent research results
Recently, PlanetS researchers published papers about stolen comets, a forbidden planet, meteorites from Vesta, and Rare-Earth metals in the atmosphere of a glowing-hot exoplanet. The video based on computer simulations demonstrates what happens if two young stars in a cluster undergo a close encounter. Each star has a belt of so-called planetesimals, the building blocks […]
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‘Forbidden’ planet found in ‘Neptunian Desert’
For the first time, an international team of astrophysicists, including members of PlanetS, discovered a new kind of exoplanet in the Neptun desert, an area where no such exoplanet had been identified to date. An international team of astronomers, leading by the Warwick University and including members of PlanetS, have found a “forbidden” planet three times […]
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Stolen comets and free-floating objects
Our Solar System may contain alien comets that were stolen from another star flying past 4.5 billion years ago. Far away in a distant cluster of young stars, a similar close encounter might have also sent the inter-stellar visitor “Oumuamua” flying on its way towards us, and there must be many more of these free-floating […]
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Bern in Space
Bern in Space Berne celebrates 50 years of moon landing – When Buzz Aldrin was the second man to leave the lunar module on 21 July 1969, first he unfurled the solar wind sail of the University of Berne and put it into the bottom of the moon before the American flag. This experiment was […]
Continue ReadingJoint PhD Position in Exoplanetary Sciences at University of Grenoble Alpes and University of Geneva
Joint PhD Position in Exoplanetary Sciences at University of Grenoble Alpes and University of Geneva One 3-year PhD position is currently available at Institute of Planetology and Astrophysics of Grenoble (IPAG) at the University of Grenoble Alpes and at the Department of Astronomy of Geneva University. The position starts September 1st, 2019 for 18 months […]
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Rare-Earth metals in the atmosphere of a glowing-hot exoplanet
KELT-9 b is the hottest exoplanet known to date. In the summer of 2018, a joint team of astronomers from the universities of Bern and Geneva and members of PlanetS found signatures of gaseous iron and titanium in its atmosphere. Now these researchers have also been able to detect traces of vaporized sodium, magnesium, chromium, […]
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PlanetS ist ein Nationaler Forschungsschwerpunkt der Schweiz, der sich mit der Erforschung von Planeten befasst. Für das Project Office des NCCR Projektes suchen wir: Eine/n Projektsekretär/in 60% (Mutterschaftsvertretung ab August 2019 bis Mitte Januar 2020) Hauptaufgaben: Entlastung des Institutsdirektors/Personalchefs in allen planerischen, organisatorischen und administrativen Belangen Organisation von Video- und Telefonkonferenzen und Sitzungen […]
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EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2019
The EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2019 covers a broad area of science topics related to planetary science and planetary missions. The event falls from 15 and 20 of September 2019 and it is a joint meeting of the European Planetary Science Congress and the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society. The programme of […]
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