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Press Releases & Web Features

Hubble Images Document Seasonal Changes on Pluto
New images of the dwarf planet show an icy, dark, molasses-colored world undergoing seasonal changes in its surface color and brightness.

Release Date: 02/04/2010
NASA's New Views of the Universe Exhibit Travels to Science Central
NASA's "New Views of the Universe" exhibit featuring the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes heads for the Science Center in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Release Date: 01/21/2010
Most Earthlike Exoplanet Started out as Gas Giant
The most earthlike planet yet found around another star may be the rocky remains of a Saturn-sized gas giant.

Release Date: 01/06/2010
Sun Glints Seen from Space Signal Oceans and Lakes
Bright flashes of light off of bodies of water, known as sun glints, give scientists a way to pick out planets beyond our solar system likely to have expanses of liquid water.

Release Date: 01/05/2010
Hubble Images "Undiscovered Country" of Galaxies
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has broken the distance limit for galaxies and uncovered a never-seen primordial population of compact and ultra-blue galaxies.

Release Date: 01/05/2010
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Laboratory News

Aki Roberge selected to serve on NASA Advisory Committee
Aki Roberge has been appointed to the Exoplanetary Program Analysis Group (ExoPAG). The first meeting of the group is in Jan 2010. This group reports to the NASA Advisory Committee (NAC) astrophysics subcommittee (APS). Sally Heap serves on this subcommittee.

Release Date: 11/18/2009
Several ASD scientists have been selected to serve on important NASA advisory committees/working groups.
Aki Roberge (667) has been appointed to the Exoplanetary Program Analysis Group (ExoPAG). This group reports to the NASA Advisory Committee (NAC) astrophysics subcommittee (APS). Sally Heap (667) serves on this subcommittee. Dominic Benford (665) has recently been selected to serve on the JDEM Interim Science Working Group (ISWG). This working group will advise the JDEM Project on mission concept design and science requirements.

Release Date: 11/18/2009
Science Magazine
Exotic Earths: Forming Habitable Worlds with Giant Planet Migration by Sean N. Raymond, Avi M. Mandell, Steinn Sigurdsson

Release Date: 09/08/2006
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Overview

The ExoPlanets and Stellar Astrophysics Laboratory studies the formation and evolution of stars and planetary systems using advanced telescopes and theoretical techniques. We develop new technology and ideas that help us understand our place in the universe. Research also contributes to the search for Earth-like planets and habitable environments around other stars. Key areas of research include exoplanet searches and theoretical modeling, stellar debris disks, young stellar objects, stellar astrophysics, and numerical modeling of planetary system evolution.

Astrophysical Research:
Extrasolar Planets, Debris Disks, Young Stellar Objects, Stellar Astrophysics, Theory, Instrumentation

Missions and Programs:
TPF, EPIC, FKSI, SI, JWST, WFC3, STIS, IRAC, FIT, UV Detectors

Our Exoplanets Seminar Series meets Thursdays at noon in Build. 21, Rm. 183.



Interested in joining our team?
Apply for a NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) fellowship, a NASA Graduate Student fellowship or for a Sagan fellowship. Next due dates: Jul 1 (NPP), Nov 5 (Sagan).


As part of the EPOXI mission's objectives to characterize the Earth as a planet for comparison with planets around other stars, the spacecraft looked back at Earth collecting a series of images.

Contact Us

Dr. Jennifer J Wiseman
301.286.8703
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