Minerva and the New Hunt for Alien Worlds

SciShow explains the science of detecting exoplanets -- planets in orbit around distant stars -- and how a new observatory being built in California may open up whole new worlds to us, literally!
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Sources:

http://seagerexoplanets.mit.edu/research.htm
http://www.universetoday.com/109731/new-technique-finds-water-in-exoplanet-atmospheres/
http://jwst.nasa.gov/faq_tweetchat3.html
http://www.astro.caltech.edu/minerva/Home.html
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Herschel/How_many_stars_are_there_in_the_Universe



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