Exoplanet TRES 2 Research Paper

Uranus is the only giant planet whose equator is nearly at right angles to its orbit and has 5 large moons and 22 smaller moons. It is, also, the only planet in our solar system to spin on its side. Uranus

Throughout history humanity has been fascinated by the existence of extraterrestrial life. Today such ventures are in the development process and the discovery of life beyond our solar system, no matter how primitive, may soon become a huge(important?) scientific breakthrough. The three basic things that are required to consider a place even remotely habitable are water, a source of energy, and organic materials. Habitability also depends on other factors that must also be taken into consideration such as how close the planet is to its star (in the case of our solar system, the sun), how long the water and organic materials existed there, and the size and mass of the planet. One must not confuse habitable with inhabited. The term

What do you think we would do if someone from anther planet landed in the U.S and claimed it as his territory because he had discovered it? How would you feel about this?

Exoplanets are interesting to us for a number of reasons. By locating and observing them, we are able to gather a variety of useful data that tells us details about the planet, and then compare and contrast them to other exoplanets, as well as our own planet Earth. These comparisons are our attempt at better understanding the formation history of rocky planets such as the one we live on today, and furthermore understand the future of rocky planets based on their internal composition and proximity to their host stars.

The solar system started out as a cloud of gas and dust. Now, it is full of planets, moons, asteroids and comets. They began forming more than 4 billion years ago.

An exoplanet can be defined as a planet that orbits a star outside the solar system. One of the many exoplanets that could possibly be habitable in the near future are far away. For example, Kepler-186 is around 500 light years aways to put that in perspective that is around 5,878,625,373,183.607731 Miles away. That is why we know so little about these planets that could support life on them.

Planet Nine is a hypothetical large planet in the far outer Solar System, the gravitational effects of which would explain the improbable orbital configuration of a group of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) that orbit mostly beyond the Kuiper belt.

Thanks to a sighting via the US NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope (www.spitzer.caltech.edu) in a partnership with Poland’s Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment, or OGLE Telescope (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_Gravitational_Lensing_Experiment), a brand new Milky Way exoplanet has been found. The remote gas planet is at least 13,000 light years from Earth, making this adventure in planet finding one of the farthest known of its kind. These worlds are called exoplanets, which mean they circle a sun other than our own sun.

Extra-terrestrial planets (Exoplanets) have captivated humans for hundreds of years, the idea that there are planets exist outside of our solar system. There are two types of planets: terrestrial planets, or rocky planets and gas giants. With the development of high zoom telescopes and arrays, we as a race, now have the technology to observe and recognise planets outside our solar system. NASA missions such as Hubble and Kepler have yielded huge results for the discovery of exoplanets, with over 3000 planets discovered as of April 2017. Scientist use multiple techniques to discover exoplanets. Spectroscopy (Radial velocity method), transit method,

From the 14 Grand Challenges listed by the NAE, the most important one, I believe, is shifting to a focus on engineering the tools of scientific discovery. It is true that while engineers create the world, scientists discover the one we have now. Why separate the two? By combining the Sciences and Engineering, we are set to discover so much more than we ever thought ourselves capable of. This has already been proven with virtually every scientific discovery that has been made true through the form of some complex apparatus, but this is further proven through this year’s TRAPPIST telescope discovery of the seven exoplanets found orbiting around a single star. While this discovery was a huge achievement for scientists, this would not have been

In its resolution in 2006, the IAU classified the solar system bodies into three distinct categories:

There are nine planets in the solar system. Each planet is unique and special in its own way. However, the planet that is currently able to sustain life is the third planet Earth, which us humans live on. Unfortunately, because of the digression of the planet the human race of the future may one day have to relocate. Once that day come the government will have to choose one of the planets to colonize and terraform. Though all the planets have some type of property that would allow it to be terraformed, Mars will most likely be terraformed and colonized into a new Earth.

The Kepler Mission began in March 7th, 2009. The goal of The Kepler Mission is to “survey a portion of our region of the Milky Way galaxy to discover dozens of Earth-size planets in or near the habitable zone” (NASA). This is accomplished by using a photometer to look for transits, then transferring the data to earth through the Deep Space Network. Once a planet has been detected, a number of different methods can be used to determine the planet’s size, composition and habitability. In order to understand The Kepler Mission completely, one must understand the structure of Kepler, the search methods used, how the data is interpreted, and the implications of the results.

As we know that super-Earth doesn’t mean Earth like planet, it can be much better. They’re extrasolar planets whose mass is greater than Earth’s, yet much lesser than our solar system’s ice giants Neptune and Uranus, which have a very high mass that it can easily fit 17 and 15 Earths, respectively (note that Uranus is bigger than Neptune but it is less massive). Since the category only speaks to the exoplanet’s mass, we can’t say anything about an exoplanet’s surface conditions. It’s big, but may or may not be suitable to sustain

The radial velocity method was used to detect the first exoplanet, 51 Pegasi b (51 Peg b) around a main sequence star, 51 Pegasi (51 Peg). The radial velocity method uses the variations in velocity of a star due to the gravitational pull from an exoplanet (Lissauer 2002). Furthermore the velocity isn’t measured in terms of actual speed but in terms of light based on the Doppler effect. The Doppler effect occurs when a star moves. When it moves toward us, its wavelengths of light are shortened and when a star moves away from us, its wavelengths of light are lengthened. Through the continued observation of the Doppler effect on a stars spectrum of light, the velocity of a star is inferred. Any change in a stars velocity is caused by a sufficiently massive companion, an exoplanet (Lissaeur 2002).