- Extrasolar Visions
Provides hard data and speculation about extrasolar planets.
www.extrasolar.net
- Microlensing Planet Search Project (MPS)
Searches for evidence of extra-solar planets using the gravitational microlensing technique.
bustard.phys.nd.edu/MPS
- SuperWASP
Ultra-wide angle photometric survey of bright stars designed to detect planetary transits and track Near-Earth Objects and optical transients.
www.superwasp.org
- University of California Planet Search Project
Providing both information for both the public and the scientific community. Includes an almanac of planets, team member information, and links.
www.exoplanets.org
- Scientific American: A Parade of New Planets
Astronomers are sighting new planets circling distant stars.
www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000BAF7C-7457-1C76-9B81809EC588EF21
- ScienceDaily: Extrasolar Planet News
News, videos, images, and links about the discovery of extrasolar planets.
www.sciencedaily.com/news/space_time/extrasolar_planets
- Advanced Fiber-Optic Echelle (AFOE)
Spectrograph designed specifically to perform precise stellar radial velocity measurements, and optimized for asteroseismology and extrasolar planet detection.
cfa-www.harvard.edu/afoe
- Exoplanets: Are We Alone?
Offers links to observatories hunting for extrasolar planets, planets which orbit a star other than the Sun.
home.stny.rr.com/gontabrook/?D=A
- PlanetQuest
Nonprofit organization dedicated to cutting edge education and research in the planetary sciences and public participatory discovery of new planets.
www.planetquest.org
- Search for the Extrasolar Planets, The
Offers a brief history of the search, finding, and future implications of the extrasolar planets.
www.public.asu.edu/~sciref/exoplnt.htm
- Transits of Extrasolar Planets Network (TEP)
Utilizing the transit method, based on the observation of a star's small drop in brightness, that occurs when the orbit of one of the star's planets passes in front of it.
www.iac.es/proyect/tep/tephome.html
- Anglo-Australian Planet Search (AAPS)
Ong-term program being carried out on the 3.9m Anglo-Australian Telescope to search for giant planets around 200 nearby Solar-type stars with V<7.5.
www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~cgt/planet
- NASA: New Worlds
Describes NASA's discoveries of, and efforts to understand, extrasolar planets.
www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/newworlds/index.html
- New Worlds Atlas - Planet Quest
Search for exoplanets by planet system (planets with host stars visible to the naked eye, planets within multiple planet systems, or transiting planets), planet type (pulsar planet, gas giant, hot Jupiter, hot Neptune, terrestrial), or by name.
planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/atlas/atlas_index.cfm
- Exoplanet Observing for Amateurs
Downloadable book by Bruce L. Gary. Exoplanet Observing for Amateurs is meant to help amateurs with CCD experience produce high precision light curves.
brucegary.net/book_EOA/x.htm
- Allegheny Observatory
Extra-solar planet detection and characterization of planetary systems is their primary reserch focus.
www.pitt.edu/~aobsvtry
- Extrasolar Planets - The Planetary Society
Learn about the search for worlds and life beyond our solar system. Includes news highlighting recent extrasolar planetary discoveries
www.planetary.org/explore/topics/extrasolar
- Astro-Venture
Allows grade school students to role-play NASA careers, as they search for and design a planet that would be habitable to humans. Highlights NASA careers and astrobiology research in: astronomy, geology, biology, and atmospheric sciences.
www.astroventure.arc.nasa.gov
- Exploring New Worlds
Article about how astronomers are puzzling over the formation and evolution of discovered massive planets that closely orbit stars near the solar system. From Science News, August 1998.
astron.berkeley.edu/~gmarcy/science_news_aug98.html
- Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia
Excellent site for those after the facts. In English and French. Includes the Extra-solar Planets Catalog.
exoplanet.eu
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