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Oct 15 2015 03:36pm
Awesome, we just need to find a way to find exoplanet's without detecting micro changes in their nuclear powered stars where results are still debatable.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/07/140703-space-planet-gliese-starspot-astronomy-science/

One of the Most Earthlike Planets Ever Found May Not Exist
What was thought to be a planet in the "Goldilocks Zone" of its star may have just been starspots.

Most exoplanets are too close to their stars to be seen directly with telescopes, so astronomers find them with indirect clues. In the case of Gliese 581g, they watched for subtle wobbles caused by the gravity of an orbiting planet tugging back and forth on the star in a regular pattern.

But even at the time, other astronomers questioned whether Gliese 581g was really there. A star's wobbles are measured by looking at its spectrum—its light, smeared out to form a sort of rainbow. The wobbles are so tiny, however, that it takes some statistical analysis to find a back-and-forth pattern.

Critics such as exoplanet expert Eric Ford, then at the University of Florida and now at Penn State, said that Butler's and Vogt's analysis was unconvincing, arguing that the pattern wasn't even clearly there.
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Oct 16 2015 01:53am
we may have to wait decades or so for a giant space/orbital telescope to be running

else we have the EELT for 2022 or so
http://www.eso.org/public/unitedkingdom/teles-instr/e-elt/
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Oct 16 2015 02:11am
Quote (Saucisson6000 @ Oct 16 2015 02:53am)
we may have to wait decades or so for a giant space/orbital telescope to be running

else we have the EELT for 2022 or so
http://www.eso.org/public/unitedkingdom/teles-instr/e-elt/


Planets would still be near impossible to see, but I heard the new telescope will be like a lot (100x?) better than even Hubble.
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Oct 16 2015 02:49am
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Planets would still be near impossible to see, but I heard the new telescope will be like a lot (100x?) better than even Hubble.


http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Comparison_optical_telescope_primary_mirrors.svg_.png

EELT seems a progress for that
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Such an optical device could theoretically allow to observe the atmosphere of exoplanets. The E-ELT could thus provide images about a hundred times more accurate than the best current instruments. Astrophysicists could see planets comparable in size to Earth orbiting distant stars tens of light years.


https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extr%C3%AAmement_grand_t%C3%A9lescope_europ%C3%A9en

sry google translate, btw that is terrestrial telescopes, but space telescopes can provide so crazy performances...

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