According to the data released by NASA, to date (2021 October 1st) we have confirmed 4525 exoplanets in 3357 planetary systems. The vast majority of these planets (75%) were discovered with the methods of transits, while about 20% with that of radial velocity. With the former technique, planets are discovered when they transit in front of their stars along our line
LSST (Large Synoptic Survey Telescope) is the future of the astronomy in the time domain. LSST is a new-generation telescope that will be built on Cerro Pachon in Chile (2700 meters). It will be equipped with a primary mirror of 8.4 meters of diameter and an innovative camera able to observe an very large field of view, more than 49
L’Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo riveste un ruolo importante nella Gaia-ESO survey: un’ambiziosa survey spettroscopica pubblica che include osservazioni di più di 100000 stelle della Via Lattea, realizzate in più di 300 notti con lo spettrografo “Fibre Large Array Multi Element Spectrograph” (FLAMES) dell’European Southern Observatory. Nei prossimi anni le osservazioni del telescopio Gaia dell’Agenzia Spaziale Europea rivoluzioneranno la nostra conoscenza della struttura
