{"id":14083,"date":"2017-03-19T02:39:25","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T06:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14083"},"modified":"2017-03-19T02:39:25","modified_gmt":"2017-03-19T06:39:25","slug":"video-a-journey-to-alpha-centauri-seti-institute-seminar-by-christian-marois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14083","title":{"rendered":"Video: &#8220;A Journey to Alpha Centauri&#8221; &#8211; SETI institute seminar by Christian Marois"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr.\u00a0Christian Marois of the University of Victoria gave\u00a0a talk about the observation of an earth-sized planet orbiting <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Proxima_Centauri\" target=\"_blank\">Proxima Centauri<\/a>, the nearest known star to earth:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seti.org\/weekly-lecture\/journey-alpha-centauri\" target=\"_d\">A Journey to Alpha Centauri | SETI Institute<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>The Alpha Centauri star system is ideal to search for habitable planets by various observing techniques due to its proximity and wide range of stellar masses. Following the recent\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016-08-earth-like-planet-proxima-centauri.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">discovery of an Earth-size planet candidate<\/a>\u00a0located inside the Proxima Centauri habitable zone, Dr. Marois will discuss this remarkable discovery and the planet\u2019s potential to find life. He will also present our current instrument project for the Gemini South observatory, TIKI, to discover similar planets around the two Sun-like pair located 15,000 AU from Proxima Centauri. The Alpha Centauri system is the prime target of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/breakthroughinitiatives.org\/Initiative\/3\" rel=\"nofollow\">Breakthrough Starshot<\/a>\u00a0program, a project to send small quarter-size probes to take resolve images of these new worlds, and to prepare for Humanity\u2019s first step into a new star system.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b5rInKFFdUs?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>More about Dr. Marois:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Dr Marois completed his Ph.D. at the Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al in 2004. The main topic of his thesis work was to understand the limits in exoplanet imaging and to design innovating observing strategies. After his thesis, he did postdoctoral researches at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Univ. of California Berkeley and NRC. In 2008, while at NRC, he led the team that took the first image of another planetary system (HR 8799) using the Keck and Gemini telescopes. He is currently pursuing his research at the NRC Herzberg where he is part of the Gemini Planet Imager campaign, and leading the development of instruments for imaging Earth-like planets at Gemini South and at the TMT.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">====<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/cm?o=1&amp;p=12&amp;l=ur1&amp;category=echo&amp;banner=146870N94VDD8MAPHT02&amp;f=ifr&amp;linkID=1a66b7640a95795359e192e9c202c69f&amp;t=hobbyspace&amp;tracking_id=hobbyspace\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr.\u00a0Christian Marois of the University of Victoria gave\u00a0a talk about the observation of an earth-sized planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, the nearest known star to earth:\u00a0A Journey to Alpha Centauri | SETI Institute The Alpha Centauri star system is ideal to search for habitable planets by various observing techniques due to its proximity and wide range &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14083\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video: &#8220;A Journey to Alpha Centauri&#8221; &#8211; SETI institute seminar by Christian Marois<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-exoplanets"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-3F9","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13727,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13727","url_meta":{"origin":14083,"position":0},"title":"ESO: Very Large Telescope to search for planets in Alpha Centauri system","author":"TopSpacer","date":"January 9, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is a new article from\u00a0ESO\u00a0(European Southern Observatory): VLT to Search for Planets in Alpha Centauri System ESO has signed an agreement with the Breakthrough Initiatives to adapt the Very Large Telescope instrumentation in Chile to conduct a search for planets in the nearby star system Alpha Centauri. 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