Study reveals new NASA telescope could find over 1,000 planets
6 years ago

Study reveals new NASA telescope could find over 1,000 planets

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NASA's new telescope could find as many as 1,400 new planets outside our solar system, enabling humans to find the largest, deepest and clearest picture of the universe as well as the existence of extraterrestrial life, suggests a new study. To find new planets, WFIRST will use gravitational microlensing, a technique that relies on the gravity of stars and planets to bend and magnify the light coming from stars that pass behind them from the telescope's viewpoint. This microlensing effect allows a telescope to find planets orbiting stars thousands of light-years away from Earth -- much farther than other planet-detecting techniques, said the study, published in the Astrophysical Journal Supplement. WFIRST will spend long stretches of time continuously monitoring 100 million stars at the centre of the galaxy, said Penny, adding that about 100 of those not yet discovered planets could have the same or lower mass as Earth, NASA said.

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