Keeping Track of All Those Exoplanets for the On-the-go Manhattanite

So last time we looked at the discovery of the first Earth-size planet by Kepler. In this post I wanted to address the science that goes into discovering planets outside of our solar system, as well as to advertise a really cool Exoplanet App, developed by Hanno Rein (an astrophysicist at the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton), that is a must have for anybody interested in keeping track of how many exoplanets we’ve discovered. If you have a little bit more time at home and want to play around with the exoplanet website, you can generate correlation plots that have a lot of neat options.