ESA's Observatory Launch

[sherlew99]

Space observatory will blast off on mission to find another Earth
By Rich McCormick on February 20, 2014 04:39 am

The European Space Agency will launch an observatory into space designed to seek out potentially habitable planets outside of our solar system. The PLATO — Planetary Transits and Oscillations of stars — mission will search for planets by monitoring the brightness of up to a million nearby stars.

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[pickinduck]

Do you think that most people know that there is more then one way to detect a planet?

[sherlew99]

I doubt it, from what I've heard about most people's scientific knowledge.