Team makes planet hunting a group effort, finds more than 100 candidates
Monday, February 13, 2017 - 14:02
in Astronomy & Space
An international team of astronomers released the largest-ever compilation of exoplanet-detecting observations made using a technique called the radial velocity method. They demonstrated how these observations can be used to hunt for planets by detecting more than 100 potential exoplanets, including one orbiting the fourth-closest star to our own Solar System, which is about 8.1 light years away from Earth.