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Welcome to the EOS/Alien Earths team's Blog where we share the research results we are most excited about.Volatile Delivery to Planets around Red Dwarf
EOS team investigators Fred Ciesla, Ilaria Pascucci, and Daniel Apai publish a paper on the delivery of volatiles to low-mass planets orbiting red dwarf stars. The team finds that including more realistic starting conditions (a larger number of planetesimals and...
EOS Postdoctoral Position Opens at U Chicago
Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Researcher to work on the chemical evolution of protoplanetary disks and primitive materials at the University of Chicago. The successful applicant will work directly with Professor Fred Ciesla and in collaboration with...
Hubble gets best view of a circumstellar debris disk distorted by a planet
Astronomers have used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to take the most detailed picture to date of a large, edge-on, gas-and-dust disk encircling the 20-million-year-old star Beta Pictoris. Beta Pictoris remains the only directly imaged debris disk that has a giant...
Got Planets? Smaller Stars Are Best Bet
In the search for Earth-size planets elsewhere in the Milky Way, lower-mass stars make for more promising hunting grounds, UA astronomers have discovered. By Daniel Stolte, University Relations – Communication | February 17, 2015 In the search for Earth-size...
EOS Grant Awarded by NASA Astrobiology Program
In December 2014 the NASA Astrobiology program has selected our EOS Team for an award enabling a 5-year, in-depth study of the formation of habitable exoplanets with right set of ingredients to support life. We are excited by the opportunity and looking forward to the...