There's 5,000 planet candidates right now. But I think the number of co-furned planets with mass is measured. So it's about 270 from tests. Still a lot of work to happen there. You're also involved in you're a part of a documentary called Dark Sacred Night. That's that's some powerful words there. Well, I've been I drew up on the dark skies as a kid. Where would you have dark skies? Yeah. I was on ISS kid. Okay. Fess up to us.
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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