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"anonymous" wrote:
On Sun, 6 Jul 2003 08:23:49 +0000 (UTC), (Marshall Perrin) wrote: Yes, absolutely. The trick is to look at a whole *lot* of stars at once - like, say, a few hundred thousand or a couple million. That's not impossible with a wide-field camera looking in the galactic plane. Try this [snip] Kepler actually will observe around a quarter million stars (it will have a huge imaging array, nearly 100 megapixels), though only about 100,000 of those will be suitable for detecting planetary transits. |
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