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The planet haul that changes everything

  • April 27, 2026 at 11:40 AM
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The planet haul that changes everything
Finding planets used to be a painstaking business. Astronomers would fix their gaze on a handful of carefully chosen stars, watch and wait, and hope to catch the faint dip in starlight that signals a world passing in front of its host. It worked. It worked brilliantly. But it also meant we were fishing with a very small net in a very big ocean.

Originally published at Phys.org

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