06.21.11
Remote Reconnaissance of Another Solar System
This visualization, produced using the Hayden Planetar...
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Young stars start out with a massive disk of gas and dust that over time, astronomers think, either diffuses away or coalesces into planets and asteroids.
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05-09-13
Planetary Family Portrait
This image shows the HR 8799 planets with starlight op...
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06.21.11
Flying through the HD 100546 system
This video fly-through show the dusty environment arou...
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05-06-13
An Astronomer's Fantasy: Planets in the Lab
If astronomers could somehow pull planets out of the...
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06.21.11
PlanetQuest Timeline
Watch the PlanetQuest interactive timeline in video for...
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Animations
Artists' concepts of planets dust disks, spacecraft and more.
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Diagrams and Graphs
Exoplanetary data in motion.
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Interviews
Interviews with exoplanet hunters
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Live Action
Video of spacecraft launches, hardware tours, and on-location shoots.
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Artwork
Artists' renderings of science concepts.
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Images of observation data captured by telescopes.
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Maps, Spectra and Graphs
Data charts, spectra, graphs, and planetary maps.
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Rocky Planets
Small exoplanets that may have rocky surfaces, like Earth.
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Gas Giants
Exoplanets 2.5 times the size of Earth and larger.
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Hot Jupiters
Massive worlds too close to their stars for comfort.
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Protoplanetary Disks
Areas where young planets are being formed.