Nine Hundred Telescopes and One Chance a Year
Illustrative image Reading the atmosphere of another world means catching starlight as it filters through that planet's air during a transit. The signal is about one part in a million and a true Earth twin transits only once a year, so you cannot simply repeat the measurement until the noise averages away. Each attempt has to work on its…
Source：Universe Today
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