Interview with EMSL user Geoff Marcy

Read the transcript at http://www.emsl.pnl.gov/news/docs/marcy_transcript.pdf. Geoff Marcy, professor of astronomy at the University of California at Berkeley, discusses the work being done to discover Earth-sized planets orbiting other stars. His research brought him to the Department of Energy's EMSL to use the Fourier transform spectrometer to calibrate the spectrometer at the Keck Telescope is Hawaii. Once calibrated, an entirely new search for planets will be launched, one that may reveal the first Earth-like planets ever found.

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Science & Technology

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• EMSL
• Geoff Marcy
• user interview
• earth-sized planets
• Keck telescope

[fedeee17]

thank you geoff, you're the best hunter planets in the world!

[PhilAEG]

Most neighbouring stars are M dwarfs, will they be looking around G stars?