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Tag Archives: Exoplanets
Potentially habitable?
The exciting news in astronomy is the discovery of water in the atmosphere of a relatively small planet, known as K2-18b, that happens to lie in what we often to as the habitable zone of its parent star. The result … Continue reading
A giant impact outside our Solar System
I’ve come down to listen to a General Interest seminar about climate change given by retired physics professor, but I’ve discovered it’s next week. I’ll have to wait to find out if it satisfies the stereotype. Since there is no … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, physicists, Research, The scientific method
Tagged Aldo Bonomo, Bonomo et al. (2019), Exoplanets, Kepler-107, planetary composition
32 Comments
The exoplanets around GJ 9827
I hope everyone is having a good break. I have a bit of free time, so thought I would mention a paper I’ve just finished. It’s about the the three super-Earths that orbit a star known as GJ 9827. The … Continue reading
Estimating eta-Earth
I had a doctor’s appointment this afternoon, so thought I would work from home this morning and then planned to take the rest of the afternoon off to play golf with a colleague. However, I also played football earlier this … Continue reading
Planetary thinking
I was wanting to write a brief post about a recent Adam Frank article in the New York times called Earth Will Survive. We May Not. I also have a post about an earlier Adam Frank article, and I also … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, Scientists
Tagged Adam Frank, Exoplanets, Joe Rogan, New York Times, Thinking like a planet
74 Comments
Overhype much?
There has been quite a lot of news coverage suggesting that astronomer have, for the first time, discovered planets in another galaxy. It’s from a paper by Xinyu Dai and Eduardo Guerras called Probing Planets in Extragalactic Galaxies Using Quasar … Continue reading
Thinking like a planet
Adam Frank has a recent article called Climate change and the astrobiology of the anthropocene. The premise of the article is that we should think of climate change in terms of astrobiology and, in particular, the habitabilty of planets and … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, ClimateBall, Global warming, Science
Tagged Adam Frank, Anthropocene, Astrobiology, Civilisation collapse, Exoplanets, Sustainability
201 Comments
A new exoplanet!
You might think I’m going to discuss the newly discovered explanet around Proxima Centauri, but – no – that’s pretty much been done to death. Instead, I thought I might tell you about our paper that was accepted on the … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, Research, Science, The scientific method, Universities
Tagged Exoplanets, HARPS-N, Kepler-20, Lars Buchhave, Pale red dot, Proxima Centauri
53 Comments
Thousands of exoplanets!
I was quoted in the newspaper today. One problem with talking to journalists, is that you don’t always know quite how they’re going to represent what you said, or – even – if you’re going to end up having said … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, Science
Tagged Exoplanets, HD219134b, Kepler, Kepler satellite, Kepler-78b, NASA, Radial velocity, Rocky planets, Sunday Herald, Transits
44 Comments
Matt Ridley on filters
I was following the responses – on Twitter – to Matt Ridley promoting Christopher Booker’s latest piece of nonsense. In doing so, I discovered that Matt Ridley recently wrote an article in The Times, called ET hasn’t phoned, but don’t … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, Climate sensitivity, ClimateBall, Science
Tagged Christopher Booker, ET, Exoplanets, Fermi paradox, Filters, habitable planets, Kepler-452b, Matt Ridley, The Times
123 Comments