Cheops telescope operational
Europe's Cheops telescope begins study of far-off worlds.
Interesting article on the BBC News science page on 16/4/2020. Looks like there could be some exciting discoveries made with the Cheops Telescope [1].
Planet formation is an interesting field of astronomy and we are finding new planets, not just different sizes but also composition. Exciting times ahead.
I have opened up a discussion [4] on Science forums [2] on this topic.
If readers are interested in learning more about planetary science please see the link to OpenLearn [3] below.
One of the exoplanets mentioned in the article is 55 Cancri -e[5] which looks pretty interesting, Wikipedia suggests this is '8.63 Earth masses' and therefore the first 'super Earth'.
We can also identify the composition of these planets by using various techniques including looking at the absorbtion spectrum
I also acknowledge here that Wikipedia, is not a suitable academic resource.
You may want to search on the Astrophysical Journal website [7] as there is an article that relates to 55 Cancri e[8].
1 Cheops Homepage 2 Science Forums 3 OpenLearn 4 Science Forums topic 5 55 Cancri -e (Wikipedia) 6 Absorption spectroscopy 7 Astrophysical Journal 8 55 Cancri e (iopscience)
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