PPT-Exoplanets: the Search for Another Earth

By Ben Waxer Habitable Zone Aka Goldilocks Zone The range of a planets orbit around its star that allows the existence of liquid water Liquid water is a requirement of life Too close to the sun too hot. superweak. angular ground motions. JINR: J. Budagov, M. Lyablin., G. Shirkov.. CERN: J-Ch. Gayde, D. Mergelkuhl. Main principle : use reflected laser beam from horizontal surface liquid . θ. ψ. Laser. http://. www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release. =2011-373. Kepler mission. Are we alone?. http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/videos/phoenix/phx20070724/phx-20070723-1280.m4v. How did life start on Earth?. Where can we find potentially life supporting conditions in our solar system?. New Ash Green Primary School 2004. System 1: Landing Confirmation. The side of the lander is covered with a touch-sensitive pad. This can detect when the lander has landed safely. Each tiny button can be pressed in to send information to the computer about the surface it has landed on.. Big Science: Big Telescopes. Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre. Contents. Part 1: Big Telescopes. Why do we need so many telescopes?. Why build big telescopes?. Part 2: Big Science. Hunting for . exoplanets. Saturday Physics for Everyone. Jon Thaler. October 27, 2012. Credit: NASA/. Kepler. Mission/Dana Berry. Outline. What is an exoplanet?. Why are they interesting?. How can we find them?. Exolife. ?? . Shah Mohammad . Nur. . Alam. Sawn. 03/03/2014. . What is Web Mining?. Discovering desired and useful information from the . World Wide . Web. Exploiting Geographical Location Information of Web Pages. For . New Planets. Matthew Livas. mlivas@terpmail.umd.edu. Science, Discovery, and the Universe. Computer Science. Introduction. My capstone was to observe exoplanet transits. A transit is when a planet orbiting another star passes in front of its star from our view on Earth, blocking a small portion of the star’s light. This change in the target star’s brightness is detected by measuring the brightness of the star over time and subsequently graphing it to obtain a light curve.. from Direct-Imaging . Exoplanet. Missions. Renyu Hu. Hubble Fellow. Jet Propulsion Laboratory. California Institute of Technology. With thanks to Wesley . Traub. (JPL). HD 189733 b. Evans et al. 2013; Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (. Moon... Oh My!. GO!. What kind of chocolate bars do you eat in space… . Milky Ways. !. Today we will learn about the sun, earth, moon and . their characteristics. GO!. Main Menu . . Sun . Earth . Can E.T. hear me know?. Goals. How likely is intelligent life in the Universe?. Life in the Universe. What are the odds of intelligent life elsewhere in the Universe?. How many communicating civilizations are there in the Milky Way?. Twenty years ago, the search for planets--and life--outside the solar system was a job restricted to science fiction writers. It is now one of the most rapidly growing fields in astronomy, with thousands of these exoplanets discovered so far. The detection of these worlds has only been possible in the last decade, with the number of discoveries increasing enormously over the last year following the findings of the Kepler Space Telescope. These new worlds are more alien than anything in fiction. Planets larger than Jupiter with years lasting one week, planets circling the dead remains of stars, others with two suns lighting their skies or with no sun at all. These locations hint at Earth-sized worlds but with split hemispheres of perpetual day and night, waterworlds drowning under global oceans, and volcanic lava planets spewing seas of magma. The Planet Factory tells the story of exoplanets, planets orbiting stars outside of our solar system. Discover the specks of dust that circle a young star come together in a violent building project that can form colossal worlds hundreds of times the size of the Earth the changing orbits of young planets that risk dooming the life forming on neighboring worlds or, alternatively, that can deliver the key ingredients needed to seed its beginnings. Exoplanets are one of the greatest construction schemes in the universe and they occur around nearly every star you see. Each result is an alien landscape, but is it possible that one of these could be like our own home? The Planet Factory discusses the way these planets form, their structure and features, and describes in detail the detection techniques used (there are many) before looking at what we can learn about the surface environments and planetary atmospheres, and whether this hints at the tantalizing possibility of life. An informative and entertaining read, The Planet Factory takes the reader to the cutting edge of the ongoing search for worlds like our own, and the hints of life elsewhere in the cosmos. \"One of Amazon\'s Best Science Books of 2016

An astronomer traces the natural history of solar eclipses from supernatural to scientific phenomenon, showing us a more wonderful way to look up at the sky

On August 21, 2017, more than ten million Americans will experience an awe-inspiring phenomenon: the first total eclipse of the sun in America in almost forty years. In Sun Moon Earth, astronomer Tyler Nordgren illustrates how this most seemingly unnatural of natural phenomena was transformed from a fearsome omen to a tourist attraction. From the astrologers of ancient China and Babylon to the high priests of the Maya, Sun Moon Earth takes us around the world to show how different cultures interpreted these dramatic events. Greek philosophers discovered eclipses\' cause and used them to measure their world and the cosmos beyond. Victorian-era scientists mounted eclipse expeditions during the age of globe-spanning empires. And modern-day physicists continue to use eclipses to confirm Einstein\'s theory of relativity.Beautifully illustrated and lyrically written, Sun Moon Earth is the ideal guide for all eclipse watchers and star gazers alike.\" Sequential Question Answering. Mohit Iyyer, Wen-tau Yih, Ming-Wei Chang. ACL-2017. Challenging research problem. Advocated in semantic parsing. [Pasupat & Liang 2015]. But, a . natural. way to interact with a question answering system?. Project Motivation – High Z Galactic Structure. Bouwens. , et al, NATURE . vol. 469/Issue No 7331. Z = 10.3, 500 . Myr. after Big Bang . mag. = 28.92, photos 2.4” on side, H= 1.6 . m. m. Project Motivation: High Z Galactic Structure.