Exoplanet Explorer

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This visualization demonstrates how planets orbit around stars and how projects like the Kepler mission detect planets around other stars using the transit method. 

Two high school students developed this interactive page using javascript and WWT API. This is a great demo of the types of features that can be utilized to create an interactive web site using WWT. 

Credits:

Albert L. Cambridge Rindge and Latin School

Tharun Sankar, Cornell University

 

Source Code: exoplanetviewer.zip7 KB