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How can we find a tiny world floating next to a blazing star from tens or hundreds of light years away? Is our solar system typical of other planetary families? Astronomers are using new, advanced methods to discover exoplanetary systems, including astrometry, radial velocity, and transit techniques.
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Only Sirius and Canopus are brighter.
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Since then, several smaller worlds have been found using other techniques, including Gliese 581c (5 Earth masses) and Gliese 581e (1.9 Earth masses).
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Heller and Pudritz, Astrobiology June 2015.
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HST was not the first orbiting telescope, but for many years it was the biggest and most powerful.
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However, some of today’s ground-based observatories are getting comparable views using new corrective optics techniques like laser attenuation of mirrors.
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As of early 2015.
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Carroll, M. (2017). The Search for and Discovery of Exoplanets. In: Earths of Distant Suns. Copernicus, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43964-8_3
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