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I would like to talk about an instrument that has been sometimes overlooked: ESPRESSO.

 

As most of you probably know, ESPRESSO is the only current spectrograph able to detect Earth-sized planets.

 

I think it will be a key instrument for 2 reasons:

 

1- The majority of the most potentially habitable exoplanets were discovered with the radial velocity method.

 

2- Only 0.5 % of the Earth-like planets in the Milky Way could be detectable by using transit photometry.

 

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-gpNtFINJs

 

Do you think we will find a nearby Earth 2.0 with ESPRESSO in 2020?

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