Extrasolar Planets

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Ancient Suns - Discusses the kind of stars that might have habitable planets, where to search for them and the requirements for life to develop.
Anglo-Australian Planet Search - Long-term southern hemisphere program being carried with the 3.9 m Anglo-Australian Telescope.
Arizona Search for Planets (ASP) - Full scale survey project for extra-solar planets. Overview and publications.
California and Carnegie Planet Search - The site of California and Carnegie program for extrasolar planet search.
European Extra-Solar Planet Consortium - EXPORT is a consortium of European astronomers using the telescopes on La Palma and Tenerife to study extra-solar planets, as well as the formation and evolution of protoplanetary systems.
ExoPlanet News - A monthly electronic newsletter about research in exoplanet science. Includes archives since September 2007.
Exoplanets - Provides information on extrasolar planets, ranging from answers to simple questions to a whole course, with a database and interactive simulations.
Exoplanets - This page presents a list of carefully selected links to informative sites about extra solar planets.
Exoworld.Info - Provides information and a blog about exoplanets and the astronomical science behind them.
Extrasolar Planet Detection with the AFOE - Extrasolar Planet Detection with the AFOE The Advanced Fiber-Optic Echelle (AFOE) spectrometer is a fiber-fed, bench-mounted echelle spectrograph, located at the 1.5m telescope of the Whipple Observatory, near Tucson, Arizona.
Extrasolar Planetary Systems - R.Cooper-Bitsch explains how to find extrasolar planetary systems, problems with the orbit of the sun, and how earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are computable and predictable.
Extrasolar Planets - A blog keeping track with current updates on exoplanets.
The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia - The reference site for astronomer involved in the search for extrasolar planets.
Extrasolar Visions - An Extrasolar Planets Guide - Extrasolar Visions - An Extrasolar Planets Guide
Geneva Extrasolar Planet Search - The extrasolar planet search in Geneva. This team has found in '95 the first extrasolar planets around the star 51 Pegasi.
Hubble Space Telescope: Astrometry Science Team - Includes details of projects, publications, software, and group members.
James Webb Space Telescope - The JWST is a large, infrared-optimized space telescope designed to study the formation of the first stars and galaxies, the evolution of galaxies and the production of elements by stars, and the process of star and planet formation.
Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics (MOA) - A joint Japanese/New Zealand project established to carry out astrophysical observations using a gravitational microlensing technique. Applications include research for extra-solar planets, dark matter, stellar atmospheres, and variable stars. Page includes information on imaging processes, the group's telescope, and publications.
MOST: Microvariability and Oscillations of Stars - Detection and characterisation of: (1) acoustic oscillations in Sun-like stars, including very old stars (metal-poor subdwarfs) and magnetic stars (roAp), to probe seismically their structures and ages; (2) reflected light from giant exoplanets closely orbiting Sun-like stars, to reveal their sizes and atmospheric compositions; and (3) turbulent variations in massive evolved (Wolf-Rayet) stars to understand how they add gas to the interstellar medium.
NASA Astrobiology Institute: Extrasolar Planetary Systems - Annual report on the progress and future plans for the research being undertaken.
Nova Celestia - A Guide to Extrasolar Planets - Contains information and free illustrations of Extrasolar planets (carbon planets, gas giants and terrestrial planets), detection methods and missions.
The Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) - A long term project with the main goal of searching for the dark matter with microlensing phenomena.
Optical Long Baseline Interferometry News - NASA JPL's Optical Long Baseline Interferometer project homepage. Aims to increase optical resolution of the local universe sufficient to detect extrasolar planets and other phenomena.
Planet Imager - NASA planet imager proposal.
Planet Quest - A NASA and JPL site in search of another Earth
Planet Quest: Missions - Terrestrial Planet Finder - Will study all aspects of planets outside the solar system from their formation and development to the presence and features of those planets orbiting the nearest stars.
Probing Lensing Anomalies NETwork - Worldwide Network of Astronomers Searching for Extra-Solar Planets
Scientific Consideration about Extrasolar Planets - A brief history of the search for extrasolar planets, the findings and the future implications.
STellar Astrophysics & Research on Exoplanets - STARE uses precise time-series photometry to search for extrasolar giant planets transiting their parent stars. Includes an overview of the project, sample results and data products.
Terrestrial Planet Finder - Explains NASA's plan to use sensitive telescopes to find planets outside of the solar-system. Includes charts and drawings.
Transit Search - Project to encourage amateur astronomers worldwide to detect transiting extrasolar planets.
Transits of Extrasolar Planets - The TEP network is a group of collaborators searching for Transits of Extrasolar Planets.
Umbral Missions Blocking Radiating Astronomical Sources - The UMBRAS goal is to use external occulters to allow a search to be made for extrasolar planets in ways that cannot be done with current methods.
University of St. Andrews - Planet Search - Describes several projects aiming to detect extra-solar planets.
The VLT UV-Visual Echelle Spectrograph - The VLT UV-Visual Echelle Spectrograph
Vulcan South - South Pole based observatory to detect transits of extrasolar planets.
Record Breaker: A Planet from the Early Universe - Astronomers have found the oldest and most distant planet known in the universe. Written by Ron Cowen. (July 12, 2003)