→ Widely unknown Exoplanet Astronomer

Credit: Swinburne Astronomy Productions

Like wildfire, the news about the diamond planet spreads across the web to the extent where the daily tabloid The Mirror decides to write about it. And why shouldn’t they? It is exciting, right? The only problem I see is that the oversimplified summary of the published result is treated as a certainty. Although this is a great theory, which causes a lot of interest around astronomy and exoplanets, it should be treated with a bit of caution before we start imagining a sparkling diamond planet about the weight of a Jupiter floating around in space. Now is the time for astronomers to debate and discuss the results. Then who knows, once the assumptions concerning the discovery have been constrained we might in a few years time know what part of this announcement was correct or not.  The way the news have presented the announcement makes it seem as if this announcement is the discovery of a diamond planet, which it is not.

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A map showing the regional interest in "Exoplanets"

Recently more and more people have become interested in Exoplanets. Not much of a surprise really when one takes into account that the first exoplanet was discovery in 1995.

The Countries with the most searches of “Exoplanets” are:

1. United States – 100
2. Germany – 97
3. Canada – 94
4. United Kingdom – 83
5. Australia – 72
6. France – 52

The most populars articles about Exoplanets are:

1. Exoplanet Hunter Finds Bounty of Multi-Planet Solar Systems
2. A gaze at exoplanet haze
3. Extragalactic Exoplanet Found Hiding Out in Milky Way
4. A distant Earth-like exoplanet ‘could have life’
5. Exoplanet could be smallest ever found
6. Astronomers detect first superstorm on exoplanet
7. Newly discovered Jupiter-sized exoplanet might become cosmic ‘Rosetta stone’

source: Google