(By Ludmila Carone) We at Chameleon are happy to announce the following book: Around Distant Suns – Emma Johanna Puranen Purchase in the UK.International Purchase via Amazon Around Distant Suns is an anthology of science fiction (SF) stories organised and edited by Emma Johanna Puranen, an interdisciplinary PhD student from the St Andrews Centre for … Read more
(By Ludmila Carone) In the last blogpost, dear reader, you read all about what a planet transit is. (If not, then here you go!). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech In any case, identifying a transit is only the beginning. Now we can actually measure the transit. One of the first thing that we identify for a suspected transit … Read more
(By Ludmila Carone) A transit? What is that? Here is a link to Venus as it transits in front of our Sun in 2012. Extrasolar planets do something similar in front of their own central star. Only we cannot see it as directly as we can see it with Venus. Indirectly, however, we can if … Read more