Tuesday, June 8, 2010

BBC News - New robotic telescope in Chile set for planet hunt

BBC News - New robotic telescope in Chile set for planet hunt: "A new robotic telescope designed to study planets around other stars has taken its first image.

Although based in Chile, the Trappist telescope will be operated from a control room in Belgium, 12,000km away.

As well as detecting and characterising so-called exoplanets, Trappist will also study comets orbiting our Sun."

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