Exo-Planets: Planets Beyond Our Solar System
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Discovering exoplanets is one of the most exciting fields in astronomy today. We have found thousand of planets besides the ones that circle our Sun now, and planet hunting has reached a fever pitch. What are these other planets like.
How do we find them. Are any other planets like the Earth. This Course includes great BONUS LESSONS:What on Earth is Astronomy.
Mini-Lesson: EclipsesMini-Lesson: Meteor ShowersMini-Lesson: AuroraProject Artemis: America Returns to the MoonExoplanets - Planets Beyond our Solar System1. Objective & Warm-up activity2. Meaning, origin and uses of the word "exo"3.
Old and new understandings of solar systems and galaxies4. History of the search for exoplanets5. Space-based telescopes and the search for exoplanets: Hubble, Kepler and Spitzer6.
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