extrasolar planet

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• Extrasolar planet — Planet Fomalhaut b (inset against Fomalhaut s interplanetary dust cloud) imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope s coronagraph (NASA photo) …   Wikipedia

• extrasolar planet — ▪ astronomy also called  exoplanet   any planetary body that orbits a star other than the Sun. The first extrasolar planets were discovered in 1992, and within 15 years some 250 were known.  Because planets are much fainter than the stars they… …   Universalium

• Sudarsky extrasolar planet classification — Sudarsky classification as used on Celestia. Class I …   Wikipedia

• Geneva Extrasolar Planet Search — The Geneva Extrasolar Planet Search is a variety of observational programs run by M. Mayor, D. Naef, F. Pepe, D. Queloz, N.C. Santos, and S. Udry. The program is located at the site of Sauverny in Versoix, a small town in France near Geneva,… …   Wikipedia

• Systemic (amateur extrasolar planet search project) — Systemic is a research project designed to search data for extrasolar planets using amateur astronomers. The project is an example of distributed computing which utilizes a downloaded console provided on the Systemic web site allowing users to… …   Wikipedia

• Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Planet Search — The Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Planet Search, or SWEEPS, was a 2007 project using the Hubble Space Telescope s Advanced Camera for Surveys wide field channel to monitor 180,000 stars for seven days to detect extrasolar planets via… …   Wikipedia

• List of extrasolar planet extremes — The following are lists of extremes among the known extrasolar planets. The properties listed here are those for which values are reliably known for the majority of the known sample of extrasolar planets, thus extremes of properties such as… …   Wikipedia

• Planet — This article is about the astronomical object. For other uses, see Planet (disambiguation) …   Wikipedia

• Extrasolar moon — An extrasolar moon, or exomoon, is a term that refers to a smaller, natural (non man made) satellite that orbits an extrasolar planet or other extrasolar body larger than itself. Definition of satellites around brown dwarfs While traditional… …   Wikipedia

• planet — /plan it/, n. 1. Astron. a. Also called major planet. any of the nine large heavenly bodies revolving about the sun and shining by reflected light: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, or Pluto …   Universalium

• extrasolar — adjective a) Of or originating outside the Solar System Some comets are thought to have an extrasolar origin. b) Of or originating in a solar system other than Earths A four inch telescope was once used to find an extrasolar planet. See Also:… …   Wiktionary