The Astrophysics Group in the School of Physics at the University of Exeter is one of the largest groups in the UK studying star formation and extra-solar planets with a wide variety of observational and theoretical programmes. We are also the head node of the EC FP6 Research Training Network CONSTELLATION studying the Origin of the Stellar Masses and a major participant in the eSTAR Project.

Astrophysics Group
School of Physics
University of Exeter
Stocker Road
Exeter EX4 4QL
United Kingdom
Tel: 01392 725514
Fax: 01392 264111

Exoclimes conference 2010

Following the success of two previous extrasolar planet workshops focussing exoplanet atmospheres, detection and stellar activity, the University of Exeter is holding a conference on Exoclimes on 7-10 September 2010. For more details and pre-registration, visit the Exoclimes webpage.

Extrasolar planets workshop

The University of Exeter hosted our second workshop on extrasolar planets.

Most distant cosmic explosion ever seen

Astrophysicists from the University of Exeter are involved in the discovery of the most distant cosmic explosion ever seen. The NASA/STFC/ASI Swift satellite has found a gamma-ray burst from a star that died when the Universe was 640 million years old. Read more.

Student embarks on space mission to Africa

Astrophysics PhD student Aude Alapini, will share her knowledge with more than a thousand people in six cities in Benin.

Latest extrasolar planet discoveries

Smallest transiting extrasolar planet The CoRoT satellite	First images of multi-planet system around another star Three planets, each several times more massive than Jupiter, orbiting the star HR 8799
The CoRoT satellite has discovered a planet only twice as large as the Earth orbiting a star slightly smaller than the Sun.	Dr Jennifer Patience is member of an international team of researchers releasing the first images of a multi-planet system around a normal star, much like our own solar system.
We have places to study for a PhD in extrasolar planet research.

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