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High School Students Contribute to Exoplanet Discovery


How does the discovery of an exoplanet affect our understanding of ...

Q: How will the recent discovery of new exoplanets impact our understanding of the universe? A: The first exoplanets were discovered 1992, ...

Exoplanets News | The Latest on Alien Worlds - Sky & Telescope

A group of high school astronomy students helped confirm and characterize a planet slightly smaller than Saturn that closely orbits its star. By: Arwen Rimmer ...

Student discovers new planet … and it looks a bit like home | UniSQ

UniSQ Centre for Astrophysics PhD student Shishir Dholakia co-led the international team that discovered the new planet, Gliese 12 b.

Using Exoplanets to Study Planet Formation - I-SURE

We work with data from NASA's Kepler Space Telescope. This telescope was in space, orbiting the Earth, for nearly 10 years, trying to find exoplanet systems.

New Era of Exoplanet Discovery Begins with Images of 'Jupiter's ...

A team led by astronomers at The University of Texas at Austin has captured images of the lowest-mass extrasolar planet ever discovered that ...

Climate Change Education Is Failing Our Youth - State of the Planet

It discovered most middle- and high-school teachers incorporate only ... The students' time to act – act with actual understanding – is now short.

Two Teenagers 'Hit The Jackpot' As They Discover Four Planets ...

Two high schoolers aged just 16 and 18 years old have discovered four new exoplanets around the brightest known Sun-like star—and co ...

Exoplanets - IfA Research

One of the most exciting topics in modern astronomy is the discovery and characterization of exoplanets — planets in orbit around stars other than our Sun.

Exoplanet - TPT

Project Overview page outlining a final project for middle school astronomy unit. Students use their knowledge of planetary science to ...

A NASA high school intern helps discover planet with two suns

Scarsdale High School student Wolf Cukier was interning for NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center over the summer when he spotted something in TESS ...

InnovatED - Purdue University

middle school students, I was able to qualitatively explore school ... librarians, and the school's resource officer and nurse to contribute to every step of the ...

Michelle Kunimoto Discovers Four New Planets - you.UBC.ca.

UBC Astronomy student Michelle Kunimoto tells us how she found four new planets, and what it means for her future and the search for life on other planets.

Newly discovered Earth-sized planet may lack an atmosphere

Researchers at MIT and elsewhere have uncovered a new “earth-sized planet orbiting a small, cool star that is expected to shine for 100 times ...

NASA discovers new exoplanet that may support life - The Tide

This data is centered around the exoplanet (a planet that orbits a star outside The Solar System) K2-18 b. The K2-18 orbits the cool dwarf star ...

High school student discovers new planet 3 days into NASA internship

PASADENA, Calif. — NASA's planet-hunting TESS mission has discovered multiple intriguing planets since it first began searching the sky in ...

Interactive visualisations - NobelPrize.org

One half of the prize was awarded to Michael Mayor and Didier Queloz for the first discovery of a planet orbiting a solar-type star outside our solar system.

Exoplanet Explorers | Astrophysics - University of Exeter

The Exoplanet Explorers School Science Sessions are delivered as highly interactive workshops and educate young people on the science behind researching planets ...

You Gotta See This: The high school student who discovered a new ...

Wolf Cukier made an amazing discovery while interning at NASA.

A Jupiter-sized planet has been hiding a big secret - UCLA Newsroom

Scientists say the discovery presents a rare opportunity to study the physics that shape thousands of other planets.

#CelebrateWithDE: Earth Day | Discovery Education Blog

... planet is facing, or how we can help? DE has pulled together engaging lessons, videos, and activities to show students the wonders of our planet. Start the ...