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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 telescopes, using the transit method. Students will characterise exoplanets using model and real satellite light …

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: 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 …

Introductory Quiz Test your exoplanet pre-knowledge by completing the quiz and receive your very own certificate! Start Quiz Go a Step Further Discover and learn about exoplanet system K2-141 b …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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