{"id":20579,"date":"2019-12-18T11:27:16","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T16:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=20579"},"modified":"2019-12-18T11:27:16","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T16:27:16","slug":"video-an-overview-of-finding-and-studying-exoplanets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=20579","title":{"rendered":"Video: An overview of finding and studying exoplanets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Courtney Dressing of the University of California at Berkeley gives a public lecture on exoplanets:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>The NASA Kepler mission revealed that our Galaxy is teeming with planetary systems and that Earth-sized planets are common. However, most of the planets detected by Kepler orbit stars too faint to permit detailed study. The NASA Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS,) launched in 2018, is now finding hundreds of small planets orbiting stars that are much closer and brighter. Dr. Dressing discusses how we find exoplanets, describes the TESS mission, and explains how it (and future projects) will help our understanding of what planets are out there and how they form.<\/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\/SWSZFSyKNEo?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>The lecture is one in the <em>Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures<\/em>\u00a0 series organized and moderated by Foothill&#8217;s astronomy instructor Andrew Fraknoi and jointly sponsored by the Foothill College Astronomy Department, NASA&#8217;s Ames Research Center, the SETI Institute, and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>===<\/em><strong><em> Amazon Ad <\/em><\/strong><em>===<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/147291774X\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=147291774X&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=hobbyspace&amp;linkId=72185e52326364cea084db5678e6288c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Planet Factory: Exoplanets and the Search for a Second Earth<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=hobbyspace&amp;l=am2&amp;o=1&amp;a=147291774X\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ac&amp;ref=tf_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=hobbyspace&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=147291774X&amp;asins=147291774X&amp;linkId=cabd863aa18f86ff32cd9c084f8dc0b9&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true&amp;price_color=333333&amp;title_color=0066c0&amp;bg_color=ffffff\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Courtney Dressing of the University of California at Berkeley gives a public lecture on exoplanets: The NASA Kepler mission revealed that our Galaxy is teeming with planetary systems and that Earth-sized planets are common. However, most of the planets detected by Kepler orbit stars too faint to permit detailed study. The NASA Transiting Exoplanet &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=20579\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video: An overview of finding and studying exoplanets<\/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":[12,22,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-education","category-exoplanets"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-5lV","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15792,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=15792","url_meta":{"origin":20579,"position":0},"title":"Videos: TESS to search nearby stars for exoplanets + Using AI to find exoplanets","author":"TopSpacer","date":"March 31, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"The\u00a0space telescope\u00a0TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite)\u00a0is set to be launched on April 16th on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. 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