Wednesday, 1 February 2012

Russia Will Begin Hunt For Extrasolar Planets

Apparently they're going to do so using the transit method. Also, the article mentions Soviet telescopes... What?
“Scientists from the Pulkovo Observatory are planning to use ground-based instruments to study the transit of planets around their parent stars,” Zelyony said at a roundtable meeting at RIA Novosti headquarters in Moscow.
Russia Will Begin Hunt For Extrasolar Planets (Universe Today)

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