Wobbling and Winking Stars Can Reveal Distant Planets

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Exoplanets are incredibly difficult to spot since they're much smaller and dimmer than stars. Astronomers have nonetheless found many exoplanets using a couple trusted methods.

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From there, they make a really vivid cartoon movie of the planet... tell you how old it is... and what the core is made out of.

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Direct imaging... now. A fleet of space-based telescopes like the James Webb could get the job done.

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Why do they show planets as a perfect sphere's, when in reality they are not, including earth?

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