If the Princeton - Ball team's
telescope ultimately gets built, it will be an achievement so unexpected nobody could even have imagined it a few years ago and so
powerful it could reveal Earth's sister planets by the score,
bringing us closer to answering a question that has plagued us for most of our existence: Are we alone?
These collaborations
bring me to work with the data collected by professional astronomers operating the most
powerful telescopes and detectors ever built, like the NASA / ESA's Hubble Space Telescope and the ESO's Very Large Telescope.