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...several other groups have now learned enough of how to search for planets with small telescopes,” he said. “We’re learning how to search for needles in haystacks.” In the same week, Assistant Professor of Astronomy David Charbonneau led a team of Harvard astronomers in detecting a planet larger than Jupiter, also using four-inch amateur telescopes. —Staff writer Lulu Zhou can be reached at luluzhou@fas.harvard.edu...
These gadgets allow students to “click in” their answers to questions posed by Assistant Professor of Astronomy David Charbonneau...
...using this system, Charbonneau said he can ensure that students are staying up-to-date on the reading and mastering the basic principles of physics...
...addition, Charbonneau said the GSFC team discovered that HD 209458b, which is 70 percent of Jupiter’s mass but 35 percent larger, orbits in a circular path. Previously, he said, astronomers believed that the planet’s surprising largeness could be explained by an elliptical orbit, but said this theory no longer holds...
...Charbonneau said he hopes to make infrared observations on smaller, rockier planets in the future, which he said is exciting because these planets are similar to Earth...