Brief description: In this set of activities students will learn how scientists study exoplanets with telescopes, using the transit method. Students will characterise exoplanets using model and real satellite light …
Brief description: In this set of activities students will learn how scientists study exoplanets with telescopes, using the transit method. Students will characterise exoplanets using model and real satellite light …
The depth of the exoplanet transit is equivalent to the ratio of the area of the planet’s disc and the area of the star’s disc. By measuring the transit’s depth …
Step 3 – Orbital Period and Distance The orbital period, T, of a planet is the time it takes the planet to complete one full orbit around its star. If …
Brief description: Find out how Cheops, the CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite, is going to investigate distant planets orbiting stars other than the Sun to discover what these alien worlds are made …
Step 4 – Temperature and Habitability To this day, Earth is the only place in the universe that is known to host life. It is also unknown if life could …
Use the allesfitter software to find the exoplanets hidden in the Cheops data
To complete your casefile and profile mysterious exoplanets you need to select your target and access the Cheops satellite data. If this is the first exoplanet you analyse we suggest …
Brief description: During these activities, students will work in small groups to model the transit of an exoplanet in front of its host star using an ‘exoplanet in a box’, …
Brief description: Didier Queloz, 2019 Physics Nobel Prize laureate, answers the questions of the best teams of the Hack an Exoplanet activity in this 1-hour webinar. Didier Queloz was awarded …
Brief description: Join Paxi, ESA Education’s friendly alien mascot, on a trip beyond our Solar System to explore exoplanets. In this video, targeted at children aged between 6 and 12 …
Download the Educator Guide and the Casefiles Brief description: In this activity, students will characterise mysterious exoplanets by analysing data acquired by ESA’s Cheops satellite. Students will work as real …
Brief description: In this set of activities, students will learn how scientists study exoplanets with satellites like Cheops (CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite), using the transit method. Students will build their own …
In our Solar System, planets are usually divided into two categories: rocky and gaseous. However, exoplanets can be very different from the neighbouring planets we are used to. The mass, M, …
Brief description: Is there a planet like our Earth out there? Scientists have discovered over 4000 exoplanets, or planets outside of our Solar System, that ESA’s CHEOPS satellite will study …
