by apai | Jun 16, 2016 | EOS Blog
By Daniel Apai Includes interview with Nick Siegler and Shawn Domagal-Goldman Over the weekend, at the Hilton on the San Diego Bay, a small group met to speak about the present and future of NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration program. To someone not in the field of...
by apai | Feb 12, 2016 | EOS Blog
Exoplanets around Red Dwarf Stars by Gijs Mulders Since the discovery in 1995 of the first exoplanet over two-thousand exoplanets have been discovered. Most exoplanets, such as those discovered by the Kepler spacecraft, orbit stars similar in mass to the sun....
by apai | Jan 27, 2016 | EOS Blog
By Kevin Wagner Searching for planets outside of our own solar system is one of the great challenges in modern astronomy. The problem consists of measuring the brightness of a planet that is more than a million times fainter than its host star, while being so close to...
by apai | Jan 18, 2016 | EOS Blog
We, Min Fang and Ben Rackham, are on a five-night observing run at the Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope (VATT), where we are collecting spectra of young stars. This post gives some of the highlights of our trip so far. The VATT is located in southeastern Arizona...
by apai | Oct 9, 2015 | News
Link to the UA Press Release on the discovery
