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Rory Barnes

Research assistant professor, astronomy

206-543-8979 / rkb9@uw.edu

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Expertise: Identifying habitable planets, formation and evolution of habitable planets

Rory Barnes’ research focuses on planets in and around the “habitable zones” of low-mass stars, showing how their composition, orbital oscillations, and tidal processes affect our concept of planetary habitability.


RORY BARNES' RECENT MENTIONS IN THE NEWS

  • Molten iron rains down on exoplanet | Cosmos
  • What if Earth were a super-Earth? | Live Science
  • How the real-life search for planets goes farther out than Star Wars | GeekWire
  • No one agrees what it means for a planet to be 'habitable' | MIT Technology Review
  • Looking for life beyond Earth from UW | KING 5

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RORY BARNES' RECENTLY TAGGED POSTS

  • ‘Would you like a little ice with your exoplanet?’ For Earth-like worlds, that may be a tall order
  • Introducing VPLanet: A virtual planet simulator for modeling distant worlds across time
  • Astrobiology outreach: UW's mobile planetarium lands at space conference
  • Looking for life: UW researchers, presentations abound at 2019 astrobiology conference in Bellevue
  • Orbital variations can trigger 'snowball' states in habitable zones around sunlike stars

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