NIST 'Astrocomb' opens new horizons for planet-hunting telescope
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Published in Optica · View the paper (DOI)
The NIST Astrocomb allows the detection of Earth-mass planets orbiting M dwarf stars, which comprise 70% of stars in the galaxy. The precision provided by the comb enables astronomers to find habitable planets around the most ubiquitous stars near Earth.
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- NIST 'Astrocomb' opens new horizons for planet-hunting telescope National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) · Feb 19, 2019 · first to report
- Penn State's Habitable Zone Planet Finder enables discovery of planets around cool stars Penn State · Feb 20, 2019
- Astronomers from UCI, other institutions use new technique to find extrasolar planets University of California - Irvine · Feb 21, 2019