Where Is the Planet
Summary
Where Is the Planet is a web tool that predicts the current locations of directly imaged exoplanets and brown dwarf companions for use in observational astronomy research, built by Jason Wang, Matas Kulikauskas, and Sarah Blunt at Northwestern.
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