NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration Program, the search for planets and life beyond our solar system.Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System
The lenticular galaxy NGC 6684 bathes this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope in a pale light.Andrea Gianopoulos (NASA)
Our solar system now is tied for most number of planets around a single star, with the recent discovery of an eighth planet circling Kepler-90, a Sun-like star 2,545 light years from Earth.Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope team has released a new edition in the Hubble Focus e-book series, called “Hubble Focus: Strange New Worlds.”Andrea Gianopoulos (NASA)
What kind of exoplanet explorer are you? Take the quiz to find out, and get the perfect planet for you!exoplanets.nasa.gov
When the Sun warms your skin, the light traveled 8 minutes to reach you.
When we talk about the cosmos, it’s easy to toss out big numbers – it's hard to wrap our minds around just how large, how far, and how numerous celestial bodies really are. exoplanets.nasa.gov/faq/26/wha…
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Light-year is a celestial yardstick, the distance light travels in one year. Light travels at 186,000 miles (300,000 kilometers) per second, 5.88 trillion miles (9.46 trillion kilometers) per hour.Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System
In the final episode of High Above Down Under, we leave the rocket range behind and head into the wild to find the fallen rocket parts. Later, we catch up with the scientists to hear about their findings.
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There are likely billions of planets in our galaxy. With over 5,000 already confirmed, how do we know which ones might hold life? Two NASA sounding rockets a...YouTube
Just 40 light-years away from Earth, the seven rocky worlds of TRAPPIST-1 would allow you to planet hop, one by one!Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System
The glittering, glitzy contents of the globular cluster NGC 6652 sparkle in this star-studded image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.Andrea Gianopoulos (NASA)
The discovery of the most distant galaxy cluster with a specific important trait is providing insight into how these gigantic structures formed and why the universe looks like it does in the present day.Lee Mohon (NASA)
What kind of exoplanet explorer are you? Take the quiz to find out, and get the perfect planet for you!go.nasa.gov
A new image of the galaxy cluster known as “El Gordo” is revealing distant and dusty objects never seen before, and providing a bounty of fresh science.Isabelle Yan (NASA)
Four brave explorers, the Captain, the Brain, the Scout, and the Friend, find themselves flung onto different exoplanets. Separated by space, the Exoplaneteers search for signs of life, or friends, while facing the dangers of these strange worlds.Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System
Euclid’s two instruments have captured their first test images. The mesmerising results indicate that the space telescope will achieve the scientific goals that it has been designed for – and possibly much more.www.esa.int
NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration Program, the search for planets and life beyond our solar system.Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System
Are Sun-like stars the best place to find livable worlds? Two rocket teams traveled to Australia for a better view of a pair of stars that may hold the answer. In Episode 5 of High Above Down Under, it’s finally time to launch.
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There are likely billions of planets in our galaxy. With over 5,000 already confirmed, how do we know which ones might hold life? Two NASA sounding rockets a...YouTube
A young planet whirling around a petulant red dwarf star is changing in unpredictable ways orbit-by-orbit.Andrea Gianopoulos (NASA)
Four brave explorers, the Captain, the Brain, the Scout, and the Friend, find themselves flung onto different exoplanets. Separated by space, the Exoplaneteers search for signs of life, or friends, while facing the dangers of these strange worlds.Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the “antics” of a pair of actively forming young stars, known as Herbig-Haro 46/47, in high-resolution near-infrared light.Isabelle Yan (NASA)
Four brave explorers, the Captain, the Brain, the Scout, and the Friend, find themselves flung onto different exoplanets. Separated by space, the Exoplaneteers search for signs of life, or friends, while facing the dangers of these strange worlds.Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System
New measurements by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) have detected water vapor in the system’s inner disk, at distances of less than 100 million miles (160 million kilometers) from the star – the region where rocky, …Jamie Adkins (NASA)
New measurements by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) have detected water vapor in the system’s inner disk, at distances of less than 100 million miles (160 million kilometers) from the star – the region where rocky, …Jamie Adkins (NASA)
What kind of exoplanet explorer are you? Take the quiz to find out, and get the perfect planet for you!go.nasa.gov
These doomed worlds were among the first and creepiest to be discovered. They orbit an undead star known as a pulsar.Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System
Astronomers detect lowest-mass planet around a star like the sun found using direct imaging techniques.Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System
NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration Program, the search for planets and life beyond our solar system.Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System
NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration Program, the search for planets and life beyond our solar system.Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System
What kind of exoplanet explorer are you? Take the quiz to find out, and get the perfect planet for you!exoplanets.nasa.gov
New research by scientists from NASA and Japan’s Osaka University suggests that our galaxy’s rogue planets far outnumber the hundred billion or so worlds that orbit stars.Ashley Balzer (NASA)
The final story in our series considers the future of the search for life beyond Earth – and whether we might find another system to inhabit when ours meets its end billions of years from now.Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System
Are Sun-like stars the best places to find habitable worlds? Two of our closest stellar neighbors may help us answer that question. Learn more in Episode 3 of High Above Down Under!
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There are likely billions of planets in our galaxy. With over 5,000 already confirmed, how do we know which ones might hold life? Two NASA sounding rockets a...YouTube
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a monster in the making in this observation of the exceptional galaxy cluster eMACS J1353.7+4329.Madison Olson (NASA)
NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration Program, the search for planets and life beyond our solar system.Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System
Signs of life beyond Earth could take forms that are clearly artificial – radio or light signals, or even evidence of large-scale engineering.Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System
NASA has released Webb’s image of a small star-forming region in the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex on its first year anniversary of science operations.Jamie Adkins (NASA)
Just how life started billions of years ago on Earth, and how it might start on other worlds, are the focus of intensive laboratory investigation.Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System
