Gemini Planet Imager
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Locality: Mountain View, California
Phone: +1 510-599-0604
Address: SETI Institute, 189 Bernardo Av 94043 Mountain View, CA, US
Website: planetimager.org/
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Still a few more spots available to attend the Zoom Webinar Searching and Characterizing Exoplanets with CHEOPS, ARIEL, and PLATO with the principal investigators of those missions. Let's talk about exoplanets tomorrow at 11am PT/20:00 CET
Cosmic Conversation Franck Marchis of the SETI Institute and Ran Wyatt of the California Academy of Sciences to discuss direct imaging of Earth-like exoplanetsperhaps even the exoplanet closest to us, orbiting Proxima Centauri!
A discussion on direct imaging of exoplanets by SETI Institute astronomer Franck Marchis today at 11:30am PT.
Animation of the solar system and moving outward to indicate stars observed with the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) mounted on the Gemini South telescope in Chile. Highlighted are the images of the dusty rings encircling some of these young stars.
Those are snapshots from the largest collection of sharp, detailed images of dusty debris disks around young stars. The images captured by Gemini Planet Imager illustrate the variety of shapes and sizes that stellar systems can take during their infancy.