Steam Salon with Ellis Bogat: Discovering Exoplanets

So you want to find a new planet, and you don't know where to start. This talk will introduce you to the field of exoplanets and how to find them! We will take a tour of the different detection methods for discovering exoplanets, focusing on the "direct detection method" that Ellis has utilized for their thesis. Finally, we will discuss the non-traditional methods Ellis has used to spread the scientific work to the general public.