{"id":1504,"date":"2023-07-12T15:06:43","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T14:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/stellarnursery?p=1504"},"modified":"2023-07-12T15:06:43","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T14:06:43","slug":"make-your-own-planet-at-nam-2023-cardiff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/stellar-nursery\/news\/make-your-own-planet-at-nam-2023-cardiff\/","title":{"rendered":"Make Your Own Planet at NAM 2023 Cardiff"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8216;Make Your Own Planet&#8217; at Celebration Space in Cardiff<\/h1>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1505\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1505\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1505 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/281\/2023\/07\/20230706_162538-1-1030x773.jpg\" alt=\"Our planet-making workshop\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/stellar-nursery\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/281\/2023\/07\/20230706_162538-1-1030x773.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/stellar-nursery\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/281\/2023\/07\/20230706_162538-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/stellar-nursery\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/281\/2023\/07\/20230706_162538-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/stellar-nursery\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/281\/2023\/07\/20230706_162538-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/stellar-nursery\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/281\/2023\/07\/20230706_162538-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1505\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Make your own planet and put it in orbit around its star.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dr Karen Meyer, Dr Aurora Sicilia-Aguilar, and Ruhee Kahar participated in the <a href=\"https:\/\/nam2023.org\/\">National Astronomy Meeting 2023<\/a>, which took place at Cardiff University. In addition to presenting at the scientific meetings, we also contributed to the public engagement session <a href=\"https:\/\/nam2023.org\/public-engagement\/celebration-space\">Celebration Space<\/a> in the afternoon of July 6th, bringing our &#8216;Make Your Own Planet&#8217; workshop. Using our &#8216;protoplanetary disk&#8217; model, visitors could create their own planet and decide whether to make it a large, hot Jupiter, a super-Earth, or maybe an Earth-twin. The planet was then launch into its orbit using our Python computer game, often showing how hard it is to have a planet that is &#8216;just right&#8217; in the temperate zone that can host liquid water &#8211; and life. But, no matter how exotic your planet looks like, it is very likely similar to a know exoplanet or Solar System body, and you can find a look-alike among the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/galleries\/visions-of-the-future\">NASA planet posters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1506\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1506\" style=\"width: 597px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1506 \" src=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/281\/2023\/07\/20230706_162614-1-1030x773.jpg\" alt=\"Our planet-forming disk: depending on where you are, you may gather gas, or dust (sand), or liquid water, or ice.\" width=\"597\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/stellar-nursery\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/281\/2023\/07\/20230706_162614-1-1030x773.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/stellar-nursery\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/281\/2023\/07\/20230706_162614-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/stellar-nursery\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/281\/2023\/07\/20230706_162614-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/stellar-nursery\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/281\/2023\/07\/20230706_162614-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/stellar-nursery\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/281\/2023\/07\/20230706_162614-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 597px) 100vw, 597px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1506\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our planet-forming disk: depending on where you are, you may gather gas, or dust (sand), or liquid water, or ice.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Make Your Own Planet&#8217; at Celebration Space in Cardiff &nbsp; Dr Karen Meyer, Dr Aurora Sicilia-Aguilar, and Ruhee Kahar participated in the National Astronomy Meeting 2023, which took place at Cardiff University. 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