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3000 children’s drawings will fly
3000 children’s drawings will fly to space with CHEOPS. The Space Telescope CHEOPS (CHaracterizing ExOPlanet Satellite) will be the first mission dedicated to search for transits by means of ultrahigh precision photometry on about 700 bright stars already known to host planets. The satellite will be built under the lead of researchers from the Centre […]
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Solar eclipse and «Tag der Astronomie»
On Friday, March 20th people all over Europe will have a chance to follow a partial solar eclipse. The following day, Saturday, March 21st we celebrate the «Tag der Astronomie». Both events present a great occasion for astronomy clubs to reach out to the general public and to inform about astronomy and space research and […]
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Exoplanets at Museum of Geneva
The Natural History Museum of Geneva celebrates the 20th anniversary of the first exoplanet discovery. 20 years ago, two astronomers from the Geneva Observatory discovered the first planet around a Sun-like star. The Museum of Natural Sciences in Geneva, the university and the NCCR PlanetS decided to commemorate the event by organizing the largest […]
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The Geneva bus in Bern
Prof. Michel Mayor will hold a lecture at the University of Bern on Monday, April 20th 2015, 7.00 pm 200 years ago, Geneva, which just had found again its independence after a period of French domination, was aware of the need to ally with a larger state. At that time, the period of the city-states […]
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Preparing for the first site visit
On May 19th and 20th 2015 the review panel of the NCCR PlanetS will carry out its first site visit at the University of Bern – a crucial meeting. «This event is extremely important for us because it is the first impression we will give to the panel members,» says Yann Alibert, science officer of […]
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NASA’s Chief Scientist visits Bern
Are we alone in the universe? «This is one of the questions that drives us forward», says Ellen Stofan, NASA’s chief scientist, who is convinced that we will find an answer in the next 20 years: «That is terribly exciting.» A special guest was welcomed by members of NCCR PlanetS on Feb. 25th 2015: NASA’s […]
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First Group Selfie
The NCCR-PlanetS folks meet for the first time ever in Anzère (Vs). All participants pose up for the first group picture. The winter definitely arrived here!
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CHEOPS Video
The CHaracterizing ExOPlanet Satellite (CHEOPS) has been selected in 2012 as the first S-class mission in ESA’s Science Programme. It is the first mission dedicated to search for planetary transits by means of ultrahigh precision photometry on bright stars already known to host planets. CHEOPS is a joint ESA-Switzerland mission. Watch a short video describing CHEOPS […]
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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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