Finding All Earth-Like Exoplanets Orbiting Sun-Like Stars Within 30 Light Years
by Brian Wang from NextBigFuture.com on (#67WHC)
A new NASA NIAC phase 1 study is analyzing a 20-meter class infrared space telescope. It is currently impossible to find Earth-like planets in the habitable zones (where the temperature supports liquid water) of Sun-like stars. It is even harder to measure the composition of their atmospheres. But this is necessary if we want to ...