- 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
- Allegheny Observatory
Extra-solar planet detection and characterization of planetary systems is their primary reserch focus.
www.pitt.edu/~aobsvtry
- Darwin
A candidate European infrared interferometer in space for characterizing the planetary systems orbiting nearby stars by direct imaging and spectroscopy.
ast.star.rl.ac.uk/darwin
- NOVA: Hunt for Alien Worlds
Offers information about the hunt for other worlds, with photos, star maps, links, and more.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/worlds
- Microlensing Planet Search Project (MPS)
Searches for evidence of extra-solar planets using the gravitational microlensing technique.
bustard.phys.nd.edu/MPS
- 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
- 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
- Catalog of Exoplanets - The Planetary Society
Regularly updated database of all known exoplanets. Answers essential questions about each exoplanet: What is the planet's location and home star? How was it detected? When was it discovered? How many other known planets are orbiting its star?
www.planetary.org/exoplanets
- ScienceDaily: Extrasolar Planet News
News, videos, images, and links about the discovery of extrasolar planets.
www.sciencedaily.com/news/space_time/extrasolar_planets
- ESA Science & Technology: Corot
Mission searching for habitable, Earth-like planets around other stars.
spdext.estec.esa.nl:81/science-e/www/area/index.cfm?fareaid=39
- Arizona Search for Planets (ASP)
Full scale survey project for extra-solar planets started in 1996.
www.psi.edu/esp
- 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
- Extrasolar Planets - The Planetary Society
Learn about the search for new planets and life beyond our solar system. Includes news highlighting recent extrasolar planetary discoveries.
www.planetary.org/explore/topics/extrasolar
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