I'll admit, this may have less actual content than some of the previous entries in this blog. Think of this, maybe, as a snapshot of the last three years:
From the National Geographic News, coverage of the second "puffy planet" HATnet discovered. There's nothing here that hasn't been said before, but it does quote Bakos, and the quotes are fairly interesting.
Via the Space Telescope Science Institute, it's possible to look up in their archives when in the past Bakos has given talks for various colloquia and symposiums. They have from the previous spring's colloquia certain talks archived as videos, and Bakos' is among them.
Finally, there is another article relating to this year's discovery, through Astronomy Now. What is truly of interest, though, is at the end of the article. A new space telescope, the Kepler, is to be launched next week; its purpose is to search for extrasolar planets, particularly of Earth-like nature. One of the planets it will scrutinize will be this new discovery by HATnet, according to the article. From space, so the hope is, it will be possible to resolve more information than the currently ground-based telescope system that makes up HATnet.
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The archiving of videos is a great techinique similar to the old tape recoreded oral interview. I think that materials such as this will soon be the norm and quite valuable to researchers in the future. Good to see that the Space Telescope Institute has already started an archive for them open to the public.
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