Exoplanets

The Tangents crew blasts off beyond the Sun’s familiar orbit to check out all the weird, wild, possibly-inhabited exoplanets circling distant stars! Who needs our boring old solar system anyway? 

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If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:

[Definition]

https://www.iau.org/science/scientific_bodies/commissions/F2/info/documents/

[Fact Off]

Not-quite-sunscreen snow exoplanet

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aa899b

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-10/ps-ads102617.php

https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Titanium-dioxide

https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/61685

https://tdma.info/how-your-uv-protective-sunscreen-works/

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/120529-global-warming-titanium-dioxide-balloons-earth-environment-science

Messages to Gliese-581c

https://www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/features/gliese_581_feature.html

https://phys.org/news/2012-07-potential-habitable-exoplanets.html

https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.4515

https://www.universetoday.com/19335/messages-from-earth-beamed-to-alien-world/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7660449.stm

https://www.nature.com/news/2007/071102/full/news.2007.212.html

[Ask the Science Couch]

Exoplanets art

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/the-art-of-exoplanets

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-artists-portray-exoplanets-never-seen/

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/02/exoplanet-trappist-nasa/517590/

https://www.wired.com/2014/05/artist-rendering-exoplanets/

[Butt One More Thing]

Space poop challenge

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/space-poop-challenge

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/winners-of-space-poop-challenge-receive-30000