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According to Charbonneau, the eight telescopes surveyed red dwarf stars looking for periodic faintness, a signal that a planet has crossed in front of its star, blocking out a small portion of the star's light...
Harvard astronomy professor David Charbonneau and his colleagues discovered the super-Earth using the MEarth (pronounced "mirth") Project, an array of eight robotic telescopes that have monitored 2,000 red dwarf stars since...
...completely unexpected to find something in the first six months,” Charbonneau said. “We expected to find a planet maybe three years out, so this was really exciting...
...Charbonneau added that MEarth is the first project dedicated to looking at red dwarf stars, stating that most researchers study other stars like...
...characterize the planet's atmosphere, Charbonneau said that he will need a space-based instrument like NASA's Hubble Space Telescope...