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Exoplanets
In this lesson, students will be introduced to the advantages of big telescopes and the use of telescopes to do astronomy across the whole electromagnetic spectrum. They will then explore the transit method of detecting exoplanets (either practically, or using real astronomical data) and use mathematics to calculate some of the properties of their exoplanet. This lesson plan has been developed by Jodrell Bank as part of the Science and Technology Facilities Council’s (STFC) Science and Society Large Award project Big Science: Big Telescopes
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Exoplanets (presentation) 2.63 MB
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Exoplanets (activity sheet) 162.13 KB
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