Extrasolar Planets
A Planet from the Early Universe
Astronomers have found the oldest and most distant planet known in the universe.
About Astronomy & Space - Two Architectures Chosen for Terrestrial Planet Finder
Discover NASA's plan for advanced telescope searches for Earth-like planets around other stars. Learn about 2 separate missions with distinct designs to achieve the goal.
Anglo-Australian Planet Search
Long-term southern hemisphere program being carried with the 3.9 m Anglo-Australian Telescope.
Arizona Search for Planets (ASP)
Full scale survey project for extra-solar planets. Overview and publications.
California and Carnegie Planet Search
The site of California and Carnegie program for extrasolar planet search.
Darwin Space Inferometer Project (ESA SCIENCE)
Overview and updates on the ESA's Earth-like planet hunting space-telescope project.
Eddington (ESA SCIENCE)
ESA space-telescope designed to seek out extrasolar planets and investigate the internal structure of stars. (Mission cancelled Nov. 2003)
European Extra-Solar Planet Consortium
EXPORT is a consortium of European astronomers using the telescopes on La Palma and Tenerife to study extra-solar planets, as well as the formation and evolution of protoplanetary …
ExNPS Road Map - August 1996
NASA Origins program report on the progress and future plans for the discovery of extrasolar planetary systems.
Extrasolar Group Study
Planet-finding assessment by the School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham 2004.
Extrasolar Planet Detection with the AFOE
Extrasolar Planet Detection with the AFOE The Advanced Fiber-Optic Echelle (AFOE) spectrometer is a fiber-fed, bench-mounted echelle spectrograph, located at the 1.5m telescope of…
Extrasolar Visions - An Extrasolar Planets Guide
Extrasolar Visions - An Extrasolar Planets Guide
Full-sky Astrometric Mapping Explorer
FAME is an astrometric satellite designed to determine with unprecedented accuracy the positions, distances, and motions of 40 million stars within our galactic neighborhood. It is…
Galactic Exoplanet Survey Telescope(project)
GEST, Gravitational Microlensing, Other Earths, and Life in the Universe
Geneva Extrasolar Planet Search
The extrasolar planet search in Geneva. This team has found in '95 the first extrasolar planets around the star 51 Pegasi.
James Webb Space Telescope
The James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, is a large, infrared-optimized space telescope designed to study the formation of the first stars and galaxies, the evolution of galaxies a…
List of links treating of extrasolar planets and their detection
This page presents a list of carefully selected links to very informative sites about extra solar planets.
Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics (MOA)
A joint Japanese/New Zealand project established to carry out astrophysical observations using a gravitational microlensing technique. Applications include research for extra-sola…
Microvariability and Oscillations os STars
Detection and characterisation of: (1) acoustic oscillations in Sun-like stars, including very old stars (metal-poor subdwarfs) and magnetic stars (roAp), to probe seismically thei…
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