Author Archives: Carolyn Collins Petersen

About Carolyn Collins Petersen

I'm CEO of Loch Ness Productions. Check out my full bio here.

Behind the Scenes of “EXOPLANETS – Discovering New Worlds”

Part Two: Finding the First Exoplanets In the last blog entry, I shared an introduction to exoplanets and the search for these distant worlds. The first possible evidence for an exoplanet lies in data collected at the Mount Wilson Observatory … Continue reading

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Behind the Scenes of “EXOPLANETS – Discovering New Worlds”

Part One: Delving into Exoplanet Science and Searches It’s hard to believe more than a quarter-century has passed since the first confirmations of exoplanets around distant stars. The actual detections of these distant worlds actually began much earlier in the … Continue reading

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Losing the Dark to Light Pollution

Help Educate your Audiences about Light Pollution We’re losing sight of the Milky Way, due to light pollution. Those of us in the planetarium community know this innately. So do astronomers, outdoors enthusiasts and others who appreciate the night sky. … Continue reading

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