{"id":3629,"date":"2013-07-26T02:12:50","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T02:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3629"},"modified":"2013-07-26T02:13:25","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T02:13:25","slug":"a-new-resource-guide-for-exoplanets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3629","title":{"rendered":"A new resource guide for exoplanets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Fraknoi\" target=\"_blank\">Prof. Andrew Fraknoi<\/a> of the Foothill College <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foothill.edu\/ast\" target=\"_blank\">Astronomy Department<\/a> sends this announcement about a new resource guide for the study of exoplanets:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A new annotated guide to written, web, and audio-visual resources for teaching about planets orbiting other stars is now available.\u00a0 Materials in the guide to this rapidly-changing branch of astronomy include video and audio files of lectures and interviews with leading scientists in the field, phone and tablet apps, a citizen-science web site, popular-level books and articles, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Published by the NASA Astrophysics Education and Outreach Forum and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, the guide can be found as a PDF file at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.astrosociety.org\/education\/astronomy-resource-guides\/the-search-for-planets-around-other-stars\/\">http:\/\/www.astrosociety.org\/education\/astronomy-resource-guides\/the-search-for-planets-around-other-stars\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Andrew Fraknoi of the Foothill College Astronomy Department sends this announcement about a new resource guide for the study of exoplanets: A new annotated guide to written, web, and audio-visual resources for teaching about planets orbiting other stars is now available.\u00a0 Materials in the guide to this rapidly-changing branch of astronomy include video and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3629\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A new resource guide for 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-3629","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-Wx","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20579,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=20579","url_meta":{"origin":3629,"position":0},"title":"Video: An overview of finding and studying exoplanets","author":"TopSpacer","date":"December 18, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"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. 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