astrometry | | It is difficult and chancy to discover planets using ___________. |
vandecamp | | Too big for a planet; too small for a star |
corot | | Most exoplanets are similar in structure to ________ |
pulsar | | Thought he discovered planets orbiting Barnard's Star |
slower | | A planet around another star |
exosolarplanet | | A French mission to discover exosolar planets. |
rogueplanet | | A NASA mission that will be launched around 2015 |
jupiter | | Killed the Chimera |
dopplershift | | How many confirmed exosolar planets have been imaged? |
browndwarf | | Believed that "Every star is a distant sun." |
gravitationalmicrolensing | | Dead star that gives off radio waves at regular intervals |
zero | | The method by which the most exosolar planets have been found. |
transit | | Exoplanets generally have orbits of ______ diameter. |
low | | Most useful in conjunction with the Doppler shift method. |
huygens | | How many Earth-like exosolar planets have been discovered? |
one | | If a star has a _______________ with a cleared out ring, we can infer that it has a forming planet. |
protoplanetarydisc | | The name of the imaged exosolar planet |
bellerophon | | The method van de Camp used to (incorrectly) discover an exosolar planet. |
2m1207b | | If the pulses of a pulsar come a little _______ the pulsar is moving away from us. |
simplanetquest | | A planet that isn't orbiting a star |