The Next Great Exoplanet Hunt
By Kevin Heng, Joshua Winn
Future telescopes are poised to find strange new worlds.
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May-June 2015
Volume 103, Number 3
Page 196
DOI: 10.1511/2015.114.196
One of the most stunning scientific advances of our generation has been the discovery of planets around distant stars. Less than three decades ago, astronomers could only speculate on the probability of a star hosting a system of exoplanets. Now we know the universe is teeming with exoplanets, many of which have properties quite unlike the planets of our Solar System. This has given birth to the new field of exoplanetary science, one of the most active areas of astronomy, pursued by many research groups around the world.
Image courtesy of CfA/David Aguilar.
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