Tonight's topic: The Grand Tour: Properties of Planets Outside the Solar System-by Heather Knutson, Professor CalTech
We currently know of more than 10,000 planets and planet candidates orbiting nearby stars. &nbsp;Many of these extrasolar planets look quite different than the planets in the solar system, including Jupiter-like gas giants on close-in orbits, `mini-Neptunes’ with puffy hydrogen-rich atmospheres, and rocky `super-Earths’ with masses many times that of Earth or Venus. &nbsp; In my talk I will provide a guided tour of the exoplanet zoo as we understand it today, and describe ongoing efforts to characterize the properties of these distant worlds using both ground- and space-based telescopes.-Heather Knutson is a professor of planetary science in the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences at the California Institute of Technology

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Tonight's topic: The Grand Tour: Properties of Planets Outside the Solar System-by Heather Knutson, Professor CalTech
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