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East Penn Planetarium Presents: Exoplanets

East Penn Planetarium Presents: Exoplanets. Exoplanet (Extra solar)- Any planet orbiting around another star other than our sun. Current count= 528+. OUR SOLAR SYSTEM. Make-Make. Hamuea. Gliese 581 red dwarf star 20.4 light years away from Earth. Apparent magnitude 10.56

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East Penn Planetarium Presents: Exoplanets

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  1. East Penn Planetarium Presents: Exoplanets Exoplanet (Extra solar)- Any planet orbiting around another star other than our sun. Current count= 528+

  2. OUR SOLAR SYSTEM Make-Make Hamuea

  3. Gliese 581red dwarf star 20.4 light years away from Earth. Apparent magnitude 10.56 In the constellation Libra Gliese 581

  4. Gliese 581 c First planet outside of our solar system, with water found to exist!

  5. Goldilocks Theory Too Close: water is a gas Too far: water is a solid Just right: Water is a liquid!

  6. Liquid Water

  7. HABITABLE ZONE

  8. KEPLER MISSION:Search for exoplanetshas now identified over 1,200 exoplanet candidates

  9. Kepler launched at 10:39 EST on March7th 2009

  10. 2,000 light years from Earth

  11. Earth at Night

  12. No Light Pollution With Light Pollution

  13. Transit method = Blinking Star

  14. Habitable zone

  15. Kepler Mission: Search for exoplanets

  16. http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html?media_id=55645011http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html?media_id=55645011

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