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Exoplanets: Links

The European Space Agency - ESA - has a wonderful site about finding exoplanets and perhaps life on other planets.

NASA's Exoplanet Exploration site is an awesome source of information! Explore this site's videos, galleries, and fascinating facts, and check out these pages:
   • PlanetQuest Interactive VideoTimeline
   • Exoplanets 101 - all about the search for life
   • Exoplanet Travel Bureau with travel posters
   • Strange New Worlds – an interactive gallery
   • 20 Intriguing Exoplanets - and more!
   • Historic Missions and exoplanet discoveries
   • Galaxy of Horrors - there are some weird planets out there!
   • Five Ways To Find A Planet – methods used by scientists

Is there life beyond Earth? That's a question humans have wondered about since time began. How do scientists search for “Goldlilocks” planets that have conditions that are ”just right” for life to exist? Learn about NASA's search for habitable planets and extra-terrestrial life.

NASA has an exoplanet catalog that is continually being updated. There may be new exoplanets listed tomorrow! Get all of the latest news, technology and discovery counts.

Find out what the Hubble Space Telescope has taught us about exoplanets.

Multiple planets — *Image courtesy of NASA*

Eyes on Exoplanets is an interactive site that allows you to explore exoplanets by planet type, planet-discovering mission, detection method, and star system. Compare other planetary systems to our own solar system and find out how long it would take you to travel there.

Learn more at Extrasolar Planet Facts for Kids, from Kiddle Encyclopedia.

NASA has images and infographics displaying the relative sizes and types of exoplanets that have been found.

The Kepler Mission is one of many designed to hunt down and locate exoplanets.

At Exoplanets For Kids, learn fun facts about both star-orbiting and rogue exoplanets.

From NASA's Space Place site for kids, learn more about exoplanets and how scientists search for them.

Have you heard of the planet that glows hot pink? Find out about this magenta-colored gas planet at National Geographic Kids.

Find out more about TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Surveying Satellite. Then download the TESS Exoplanet Coloring Book.

Learn more about extrasolar planets on The Planetary Society's site.

The Planetary Society has a great site for kids to explore other space-related topics too.

NASA's Exoplanet Travel Posters are available to download as coloring pages.

Learn more about exoplanets with these fun videos:

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