How robots are looking for planets
A new generation of intelligent robotic telescopes search for planets in other solar systems.
Published:
May 26, 2009
 The Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) 1.3-meter telescope, shown here in its dome at Las Campanas Obsevatory in Chile, searches for faint variations in light from other stars suggest the presence of a planet or planets.
Photo by Source: ogle.astrouw.edu.pl |
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