This guide has videos, interactives and other resources to help students learn about the solar system, the history of exo-planetary discovery, and ideas about space colonization.
Feb. 24, 2017 - CBC scientist Bob McDonald writes about the challenges that scientists face when trying to learn what the exoplanets are actually like.
This 12-minute video explains how our solar system works, focusing on how astronomers have searched for other stars and planets. Astronomers think there may be many billions of Earth-like planets in our galaxy.
Feb 2017 - Check out the amazing pictures that accompany this article about the new exoplanet discovery, the first known system of 7 Earth-size planets around a single star. Three of these planets are in the habitable zone, the area around the parent star where a planet is most likely to have liquid...
This article from March 2017 has some information and animations about the Webb Telescope, the newly discovered Trappist exoplanets and how the telescope will help scientists learn more about the exoplanets.
"Seven Earth-sized planets have been observed by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope around a tiny, nearby, ultra-cool dwarf star called TRAPPIST-1. Three of these planets are firmly in the habitable zone. In this video, NASA Scientists explain the implications of this amazing find."
In this six minute video, Olivier Guyon examines the possibility of finding other life-bearing planets among the billions of stars and galaxies in the universe.