The more common
exoplanet search technique, measuring stellar gravitational wobbles, would require one to two decades and longer to identify the orbital periods of planets at the distances of Jupiter and Saturn.
Not exact matches
Back in business after a heart - stopping near - shutdown in April, NASA's Kepler space telescope is about to begin an 80 - day campaign to
search for
exoplanets using a novel
technique.
WFIRST will have Hubble's sharpness to
search for
exoplanets using the microlensing
technique.
This instrument will be dedicated to the
search for
exoplanets through the direct imaging
techniques, with the new generation extreme adaptive optics.
In the
exoplanet detection toolkit, scientists have a
technique well suited to
search these farthest outreaches and the space in between the stars.