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Watch an Actual Exoplanet Orbit its Star for 17 Years


g for exoplanets is incredibly difficult given their literal astronomical distances from Earth, which is why a myriad of methods have been created to find them. These include transit, redial velocity, astrometry, gravitational microlensing, and direct imaging.

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