June 2018
Publish or perish: the astronomer’s dilemma
... they pass in front of their bright parent stars and create a catalogue of targets for future exoplanet characterisation observations. In contrast, the community and the system do have a definition of failed research, viz. the opposite of ...
June 2018
Space 2080 a future perspective
...was the recent fortuitous discovery of the habitable exoplanet Gamma2042. An exploratory journey is not yet ... years ago we did not even know about the existence of exoplanets. Animal bay on a futuristic spaceship. Planetary exploration The collection ...
October 2019
Are we prepared for SETI discovery?
...the Earth. Once it was realised that there are exoplanets quite similar to terrestrial planets all over the Milky Way...and the new methods can observe only indirect consequences of life on exoplanets. As a result, at present, there is no well-founded ...
July 2021
Arecibo - an astounding legacy
...as 425C at the planet’s surface. The discovery of the first exoplanet was also made in 1992; it was part of a planetary ...discoveries relating to pulsars, galaxies, asteroids, comets, planets, exoplanets, and so much more. About the author Dr Joan Schmelz...
