Cool World's Lab is the research team I started here at Columbia. The most successful way of discovering plants is this transit method. So if you're going to look for planets, you're most likely to find just those planets that are close by. There's even a paper on the Exotica archive claiming a Trojan exoplanet will get debunked tomorrow. But sometimes astronomers have been through peer review papers that they think don't make sense.
What is the weirdest planet ever discovered? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice discover bizarre exoplanets like Erebus, the impacts of living on a habitable moon, hot Jupiters, and more with astronomy professor David Kipping.
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