#355 – David Kipping: Alien Civilizations and Habitable Worlds
Lex Fridman Podcast
Transit method: when objects occlude their source of light just a bit
The Kepler telescope was successful in finding Earthlike planets, but it only found a few and it ended after 4.35 years./nThe transit method is the primary way of detecting these planets and it works by measuring how much light is blocked when the planet passes by the star.
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