Category: Exoplanets
“Floating” planets: questions from a journalist
1/ Do you think these free floating planets, detected by micro-lensing very far away from us, are the same objects than those you observed years ago in the Sigma Orionis cluster? There are two options (for both types): either they have ...
Planet Formation in Action?
Amazing results from my friend Nuria Huélamo and her collaborators .... From the ESO website: "Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope an international team of astronomers has been able to study the short-lived disc of material around a young star that ...
Renovation of the German-Spanish agreement for the future of Calar Alto
After many moths and a lot of work .... (and this is one of the reasons why I was not active writing posts, or in science) .... We have an agreement! Calar Alto Observatory (Almería, Southern Spain) will continue it scientific ...
The confirmation of the first super-Earth
I have to confess that sometimes I am very tired of my trips: conferences, workshops, meetings, observing runs... I hate airports, I do not like the security and the waste of time, and I would prefer to avoid the effect ...
A new exoplanet approaching the mass of Earth
In the JENAM (European Astronomical Society Meeting), in England ... plenty of wonderful results. Of course, from my point of view, the most important is the announcement by Michael Mayor of a new exoplanet, with an extremely low mass, only ...
RoPACS: Rocky Planets Around Cool Stars
RoPACS, one of the big collaborations I am involved, is a European network which has the goal of training PhD students in the field of the exoplanet search and characterization (by the way, we are opening 11 positions ...