In search of rocky planets- Due for launch late December 2006, the Convection Rotation and Planetary Transits mission while looking at stars, will detect subtle...
A fresh look at landscape from the collection. Drawing on the National Gallery's rich collection of 19th-century French landscapes, Corot to Monet (8 July -...
Today, scientists with the European Southern Observatory have announced the discovery of the first solid Exoplanet, CoRoT-7b. For more info: www.eso.org
COnvection ROtation and planetary Transits COROT has discovered a massive planet-sized object orbiting its parent star closely, unlike anything ever spotted before. It is so...