How to Find an Exoplanet
(2016, original release: 2015)
Nonfiction
eCourse
Details
PUBLISHED
The Great Courses, 2015
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2016
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2016
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (streaming video file) (31 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
ISBN/ISSN
1198804
LANGUAGE
English
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Given the extreme faintness of a planet relative to the star it orbits, how can astronomers possibly find it? Learn about direct and indirect methods of detection. As an example of the indirect method, discover why a planet causes a star’s position to change, providing a strategy for locating exoplanets without seeing them
Title from title frames
Film
Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2015
Mode of access: World Wide Web
In English