The hunt for Exoplanets - Will we find a planet we can live on?
The Space Economy
English - August 02, 2021 12:35 - 24 minutes - 22.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsBusiness newspace space economy satellites constellations space stations nasa communications Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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We've found thousands of exoplanets in the last 30 years, particularly with tools like NASA's Kepler mission and the HARPS instrument at the La Silla telescope in Chile. But for the last few years, we've had the capability to seek out worlds that are potentially habitable, like the famous TRAPPIST-1 system with several planets the size of Earth.So far these worlds are just lights in a telescope, but before long observatories and potential missions will show us more. To tell us more about the future of exoplanet science, we'll hear from Franck Marchis, a senior planetary astronomer at the SETI Institute.
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