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Well, we also know where we haven't found signs of life. So from that perspective we have more data.

Probably not the best choice of words from me there. However, there is a positive correlation between a star's metallicity and the number of planets a star has.

Thanks for the clarification. You are absolutely right, in my post above I accidentally used the word "parallel" that caused the confusion. It wouldn't even be practically possible…

I should have been more clear in my original post. AFAIK there are two options on the table - looking at two fields, both 2 years OR looking at one field for 3 years and then doing…

> How big is the L2 Lagrange point? (i.e., how closely do you need to be for an orbit around L2 to be practical?) The L2 point doesn't really have size, and even its location isn't…

> What's the typical time scale for a transit? Generally measured in hours, or minutes. For example, if we were observing our system with perfect alignment, Earth's transit would b…

For many reasons. 1 - it might be very unique itself 2 - it might be very close to us 3 - it might be orbiting a very interesting star, a star type we didn't expect to have that pl…

Good question. No, these will essentially be black-white "photos". The amount of light is measured. The reason for so many CCDs is so that the field of view would be as large as po…

Great questions. > Is it to get a more exhaustive survey single star or can full of stars? PLATO will look at 100k+ stars at once. And for most we will be unlucky to see a transit …

As far as I know it won't be affected at all, the project is almost fully funded from the European Space Agency. And it will most likely be launched with the European Ariane rocket…

Yes that's correct.

Yes, it's something that's referred to as pointing stability. The telescope will have star trackers to precisely know it's relative position - basically you make sure that you see …

Figuring out the optimal placement of CCDs on Plato's 24(+2) cameras. Due to the way CCDs are fabricated, their properties vary a bit, they are not identical. For example, they can…

While it's possible for conditions for life to emerge or sustain itself to be present beyond the habitable zone (e.g. there's likely a subsurface ocean orbiting the farthest plant …

It might be because we keep discovering more exoplanets. So far we have confirmed 5830 of them ( https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/ ).

Next year there is a plan to send a space telescope to L2 with the main objective being to search for Earth-like planets around Sun-like stars in the habitable zone. Like Kepler an…

This is awesome. I went looking for FarFarOut ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_AG37 ), maybe would be cool to add it?

Which has upkeep costs due to living in it, and the occasional overnight parking expenses and fines.

There are manufacturing processes that benefit from microgravity (e.g. growing protein crystals for the pharma industry, producing semiconductors, etc). Beyond that it would be a s…

1 billion SATS = 10 bitcoin 1 SATS = 0.00000001 bitcoin Unsure why the headline was edited. Probably to get more attention as btc draws more attention than SATS

This sounds like scaling the service to more areas will slow :( . Surprising that Alphabet sees the savings to be worth a slower rollout.

It seems it would depend on the persons risk tolerance. And assessing risk of freely available open source software is still difficult, you either rely on all the authors being sta…

Auditing each tool by ourselves would cost a lot of time. Not to mention that it would not be a one-time thing. At each update, another check would be required for "peace of mind".…

This looks amazing, but installing the Firefox extension I am worried about all the permissions it asks. I am surprised how comfortable people are signing off on these permissions.…