Last I checked, the catalog of exoplanets was nicely rising through 5,000. And you're going to make predictions about how soon we'll hit maybe 10,000, doubling that number? Yeah, that's a very hard thing to extrapolate. At what rate are you discovering exoplanets? Well, so our rate, we actually found 140 something exoplanets between 2006 and now. But you know, space missions have a limited lifetime.
How do we discover more exoplanets? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Matt Kirshen explore telescopes, exoplanets, and more with professor of astrophysics and Principal Investigator of HATNet Exoplanet Survey, Gáspár Bakos.
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