New method for detecting exoplanet atmospheres could help find habitable planets
In the last decade, hunting for distant exoplanets has become a large focus of astronomy, with projects like NASA’s planet-hunting satellite TESS locating many new planets, including somepotentially habitable ones, and the European Space Agency’sCHEOPS satellite recently launchedto search for even more. But once we have located an exoplanet, how can we learn more about it? It’s almost impossible to image distant planets as they are so dim compared to the light given off by their stars....