Planetary Group Seminar: Extrasolar planets: what do we know, what can we know? (R. Heller)
- Date: Oct 29, 2019
- Time: 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
- Speaker: René Heller
- MPS
- Location: MPS
- Room: Auditorium
- Host: Urs Mall
Beyond the 8 planets around the sun more than 3000 planets have been found around other stars. One of them is in orbit around Proxima Centauri at a distance of just 4 light years, others are as far as thousands of light years away. Let's have a look at how these so-called exoplanets have been detected, how their physical and orbital properties compare to the architecture of the solar system, and what kind of discoveries we can expect during our lifetimes.