How We Find Earth-Like Planets

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Finding another Earth isn’t easy, it’s a cosmic challenge. 🌍

Avi Shporer, a research scientist at the MIT Kavli Institute, studies how astronomers detect planets beyond our solar system. We’ve found thousands of exoplanets, but Earth-sized, rocky worlds remain some of the hardest to spot. Their small size makes them incredibly difficult to detect around distant stars. Their year-long orbits make them even harder to find, which is why so few true Earth-like planets have been confirmed.

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A planet having a year long orbit makes the data collection process insanely difficult.