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Extrasolar Planets

Educator Resources for "Extrasolar Planets"

For general information about using Science Bulletins in your classroom, refer to the Science Bulletins Educator's Guide.

Exploring In-Depth

Extrasolar Planets demonstrates one of the ways that scientific understanding chan change.  Explore with students the challenge in confirming new findings, and classifying new information.

  • What is a planet?
  • What is an exoplanet?
  • Are the exoplanets observable?
  • How do scientists learn about exoplanets?

 

New technologies are allowing astronomers to see further into the universe than ever before.  Learn more about the tools that are revolutionizing scientific understanding.

  • How does the Terrestrial Planet Finder work?
  • What are other tools NASA uses to capture data and images about the universe? 

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