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Current Highlights

Feb 15	Observation of dust ring around the Solar System helps in search for extrasolar planets
Jan 18	Jupiter as a typical example of large planets around other stars.
Jan 10	Advanced space telescopes might soon probe far-off worlds for the chemical signatures of alien life.
Jan 10	New superconducting camera (S-cam) shall revolutionise the way astronomers observe the Universe
Jan 08	First planet detected orbiting a giant star.
Jan 08	Structure in dust around Vega may be signature of a planet.

Conferences, Workshops, Seminars, ...

CFHT Meetings List

16-20 Sep 2002 IAU Colloquium No. 189: Astrophysical Tides: Effects in the Solar and Exoplanetary Systems Purple Mountain Observatory, Academia Sinica, Nanjing, China 18-21 Jun 2002 Scientific Frontiers in Research on Extrasolar Planets Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 08 Jun 2002 AAS Second Century Lecture- Extrasolar Planets: First Reconnaissance, Lecture by Paul Butler Topeka, KS 08-26 Jan 2001 Physics at High Pressures: Interiors of Giant Planets, Extrasolar Planets and Brown Dwarfs (mini-program). Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA. 17-21 Mar 1997 Brown Dwarfs and Extrasolar Planets. Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Spain.