- 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
- Allegheny Observatory
Extra-solar planet detection and characterization of planetary systems is their primary reserch focus.
www.pitt.edu/~aobsvtry
- 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
- Arizona Search for Planets (ASP)
Full scale survey project for extra-solar planets started in 1996.
www.psi.edu/esp
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- ESA Science & Technology: Darwin
Utilizing a flotilla of six space telescopes, to scan the nearby Universe, looking for signs of life on Earth-like planets.
darwin.esa.int/science-e/www/area/index.cfm?fareaid=28
- 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
- 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 - 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
- Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia
Excellent site for those after the facts. In English and French. Includes the Extra-solar Planets Catalog.
exoplanet.eu
- Extrasolar Visions
Provides hard data and speculation about extrasolar planets.
www.extrasolar.net
- Giant Planets Orbiting Faraway Stars
Article by Geoffrey W. Marcy and R. Paul Butler discussing how extrasolar planets are detected, planetary comparisons, and the future of planet hunting.
astron.berkeley.edu/~gmarcy/sciam.html
- Keck Interferometer
Profile of the ground-based component of NASA's Origins Program, which addresses fundamental questions about the formation of galaxies, stars, and planetary systems.
planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/Keck/keck_index.html
- Largest Transiting Extrasolar Planet Found Around a Distant Star
Lowell Observatory announcement for the discovery of TrES-4, the largest known extrasolar planet.
www.lowell.edu/media/releases.php?release=20070806
- Microlensing Planet Search Project (MPS)
Searches for evidence of extra-solar planets using the gravitational microlensing technique.
bustard.phys.nd.edu/MPS
- NASA PlanetQuest (5)
Includes news of new planet discoveries, information on the latest extrasolar planet research, and a new worlds atlas.
dir.yahoo.com/.../Extrasolar_Planets/NASA_PlanetQuest
- 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
- 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
- Other Worlds, Distant Suns
Catalog of extrasolar planets, with observing guides, star maps, astronomical VRMLs, links, and more.
www.astronautica.com/owds.html
- PlanetQuest
Nonprofit organization dedicated to cutting edge education and research in the planetary sciences and public participatory discovery of new planets.
www.planetquest.org
- ScienceDaily: Extrasolar Planet News
News, videos, images, and links about the discovery of extrasolar planets.
www.sciencedaily.com/news/space_time/extrasolar_planets
- 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
- 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
- Spectrashift.com
Dedicated to amateur radial velocity studies and the search for extrasolar planets.
www.spectrashift.com
- 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
- Top 10 Most Intriguing Extrasolar Planets
SPACE.com lists the top 10 most intriguing extrasolar planets with artists' visualizations of these far away worlds.
www.space.com/scienceastronomy/extrasolar_planets.html
- Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey (TrES) (2)
Discover sites about a trans-Atlantic effort to locate transiting extrasolar planets.
dir.yahoo.com/.../Extrasolar_Planets/Trans_Atlantic_Exoplanet_Survey__TrES_
- 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
- Transitsearch.org
Working to coordinate and direct a cooperative observational effort which will allow experienced amateur astronomers and small college observatories to discover transiting extrasolar planets.
www.transitsearch.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
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