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New Telescope Hunts for Earth Sized Planets

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the do-you-see-what-i-see dept.

TENxOXR writes "The French-led Corot mission has taken off from Kazakhstan on a quest to find planets outside our Solar System. The space telescope will monitor about 120,000 stars for tiny dips in brightness that result from planets passing across their faces. The multinational mission will also study the stars directly to uncover more about their interior behavior."

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  1. Obligatory surrender joke... by IdleTime · · Score: -1, Troll

    Will the French surrender to the new planets they will discover?

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