Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4

Day: October 25, 2011

  • TED Talk: Finding planets around other stars

    How do we find planets — even habitable planets — around other stars? By looking for tiny dimming as a planet passes in front of its sun, TED Fellow Lucianne Walkowicz and the Kepler mission have found some 1,200 potential new planetary systems. With new techniques, they may even find ones with the right conditions…