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How to Measure a Transiting Exoplanet
I'm fascinated by how much we can learn from a transiting exoplanet. I guess we would compare this method to maybe direct direct imaging for example let's compare those two togetherYeah okay so um I'm I'm fascinated byHow much we can actually learn from a Transiting Exoplanet. You first of all from the depth of the transit you can tell how big the planet is that's pretty obvious like if it's very deep then the planet is big compared to the star and if it's shallow then it's tiny.