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How do you find an exoplanet?

Updated: 8/19/2019
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Scientist use extremely powerful telescopes and machines to measure the brightness of stars. If a planet were to pass in front of the star than the stars brightness may dip by 1/1000th of a percent. The telescopes are so powerful that they are able to measure this dip and thus allow scientist to detect exoplanets.

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