Methods of detecting exoplanets
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Methods of detecting exoplanets
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Any planet is an extremely faint light source compared to its parent star. For example, a star like the Sun is about a billion times as bright as the reflected light from any of the planets orbiting it. In addition to the intrinsic difficulty of detecting such a faint light source, the light from the parent star causes a glare that washes it out. For those reasons, very few of the exoplanets reported as of January 2024 have been observed directly, with even fewer being resolved from their host s
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methods_of_detecting_exoplanets
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2006-10-04T19:50:17Z
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2024-08-30T19:20:20Z
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