The night sky exceeding Paranal in Chile, wherever NGTS will be built. During the foreground is the Very Large Telescope. Photograph: Yuri Beletsky/European Southern Observatory British Astronomers Launch Advanced Planet Search To Look For Signs Of Life -- The Guardian Robotic telescopes in Chile's Atacama desert will conduct Next Generation Transit Survey to analyse atmospheres representing clues The art of hunting planets has show your face so far to facilitate astronomers can promptly roll hundreds of alien worlds to facilitate orbit stars so faint they are not even visible as pinpricks in the discharge night sky. Not much is branded of these far-flung planets. The for the most part conspicuous are gigantic, the size of Jupiter, and parched from gyrating so close to their suns. Others are giant iceballs, or waterworlds, or even rocky like Earth. But the finer details are a mystery, the stuff of speculation more than science
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