Category Archives: Exoplanets

Awesome Planetary Formation Videos

Posted on March 14, 2012 by drgrundstrom

In class on Monday, I showed a whole bunch of videos that show planetary formation – some showed certain parts better than others but they all are pretty awesome.  Just in case anyone wanted to look at them again, here they are: Short, beginning of formation (from gas cloud to disk) from ESA – here […] Continue reading →

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Planet Retraction??

Posted on February 4, 2012 by drgrundstrom

In the world of exoplanets (and all of science really), one has to be very careful and very sure of what one is publishing.  Researchers were very sure and very excited when they discovered what looked like a planet around the star Fomalhaut.  Totally looked like an open-and-shut case: they took a picture of Fomalhaut […] Continue reading →

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