Exoplanets
topic on 2 shows · 2 statements across 2 episodes
2 statements about Exoplanets, every show
Filippenko: Nearly every star in the sky has orbiting planets
“It turns out that nearly every star you see in the sky has a collection of planets around it.”
Zurbuchen: Exoplanet catalog grew from zero to thousands since his master's degree
“When I started my kind of master's degree in astrophysics we had no planets elsewhere other than the ones in our solar system. In the meantime, we have thousands of those planets, and some of them look awfully like, you know, like our own kind of relative to t…”