This week’s webinar will be Adventures in the Goldilocks Zone, by Prof Frazer Pearce of the University of Nottingham.

With over 4000 confirmed planets and many thousand more candidate objects new exoplanets are being discovered every day. I’ll discuss how these recent discoveries have influenced our ideas about the formation of our own Solar System via planetary migration and resonance. After briefly discussing how exoplanets are discovered and their properties measured I’ll focus on the Trappist-1 system, which contains 7 Earth-like planets, 3 of which orbit within the Goldilocks zone. I’ll conclude with a brief summary of future exoplanet finder missions.

To join the interactive Zoom webinar please click on the below link. This will install the Zoom software if you do not already have it on your computer and then allow you to join the meeting. You may click on the link in advance to install the Zoom software prior to the webinar.

Click to join: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/548739039

For anyone who does not wish to join via Zoom or is unable to install the software, then we will also be streaming the webinar on our BAA YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/britishastronomical

Please note you will be unable to ask questions via YouTube.