Galaxy Zoo Talk

Exoplanet search

  • zoob1172 by zoob1172

    http://news.mit.edu/2017/dataset-nearby-stars-available-public-exoplanets-0213

    Today, a team that includes MIT and is led by the Carnegie Institution for Science has released the largest collection of observations made with a technique called radial velocity, to be used for hunting exoplanets. The huge dataset, taken over two decades by the W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii, is now available to the public, along with an open-source software package to process the data and an online tutorial.

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