exoplanets Archives - Colin Stuart https://www.colinstuart.net/tag/exoplanets/ Astronomy author and speaker Thu, 22 Jan 2015 10:07:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.10 https://www.colinstuart.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/cropped-Saturn1-32x32.png exoplanets Archives - Colin Stuart https://www.colinstuart.net/tag/exoplanets/ 32 32 166732936 Revived Kepler telescope spies first multiple planet system https://www.colinstuart.net/revived-kepler-telescope-spies-first-multiple-planet-system/ https://www.colinstuart.net/revived-kepler-telescope-spies-first-multiple-planet-system/#respond Thu, 22 Jan 2015 10:07:18 +0000 http://www.colinstuart.net/?p=1783 In very encouraging news, the Kepler planet-hunting telescope seems to be relishing its new setup – so much so that it has spotted its first exoplanetary system with more than one planet. This comes hot on the heels of the news before Christmas that the mission – dubbed K2 – had found its first exoplanet […]

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]]> https://www.colinstuart.net/revived-kepler-telescope-spies-first-multiple-planet-system/feed/ 0 4328 World’s largest telescope gets the green light https://www.colinstuart.net/worlds-largest-telescope-gets-the-green-light/ https://www.colinstuart.net/worlds-largest-telescope-gets-the-green-light/#respond Thu, 04 Dec 2014 11:19:31 +0000 http://www.colinstuart.net/?p=1751 Awesome news in this morning. The European Southern Observatory (ESO) have approved the construction of the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) in the arid Atacama desert in Chile. Already home to some of the world’s best telescopes, such as the Very Large Telescope (VLT) just 20 km away, the South American country could see the […]

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]]> https://www.colinstuart.net/worlds-largest-telescope-gets-the-green-light/feed/ 0 1751 Close proximity to red dwarf stars could scupper life’s chances https://www.colinstuart.net/close-proximity-to-red-dwarf-stars-could-scupper-lifes-chances/ https://www.colinstuart.net/close-proximity-to-red-dwarf-stars-could-scupper-lifes-chances/#respond Wed, 03 Dec 2014 10:27:20 +0000 http://www.colinstuart.net/?p=1745 The search for life beyond the Earth is one of the driving factors behind modern astronomy. For a long time a debate has raged about the habitability of planets around red dwarf stars. This latest study adds fuel to those flames. Such stars are by far the most common type of star in the universe […]

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