European Southern Observatory (ESO) Paranal Observatory in Chile. Queen’s University Belfast is a key partner of the NGTS, which is a collaboration between Queen’s, the University of Warwick, University of Cambridge, University of Leicester Geneva Observatory, German Aerospace Centre, Universidad de Chile the Universidad Catolica del Norte, and the European Southern Observatory.
Volunteers just might be the first on this planet to find a brand-new world orbiting another star in our galaxyDr Meg Schwamb an astronomer in the School of Mathematics and Physics at Queen’s University Belfast, is leading the project. “If the orbit of an exoplanet is seen at just the right angle from Earth we may observe the planet passing directly in front of its.
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