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Cosmic Queries – Discovering Exoplanets with Gáspár Bakos

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The Pros and Cons of Using Small Telescopes for Exoplanet Detection

In earth's case it's the plant life that's making the oxygen uh not humans or any other animal life plus you know in the first two billion years we were not producing oxygen we were producing methane so this is not saying that if you see a planet with no oxygen it has no life if you can't say that yet. The direct imaging of one the hope is one day we'll have enough resolution to actually see oceans or clouds or something on itYeah yeah so the direct imaging is where you can actually see the planet directly um as a separate cottage industry that's on that's unfolding right now yep in our fieldyeah yeah Matt give me some more see if we can fit in a

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