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In the mid-1990s, astronomers made background when they diagnosed three planets orbiting actors in the Milky Way. The planets were nothing like Earth, however: These were big gas balls like Jupiter or Saturn. A lot more than 500 planets have been found since then, yet none of them could support life. Now, armed with an increase of powerful technology, entire world hunters are racing to discover a true twin of Earth. Science copy writer Michael Lemonick has unique usage of these exoplaneteers, as they call themselves, and Reflection Earth unveils their passionate mission. Geoff Marcy, at the School of California, Berkeley, is the world's most successful entire world hunter, having found two of the first three extra-solar planets. Costs Borucki, at the NASA Ames Research Center, struggled for greater than a decade to kick off the Kepler objective - really the only planet finder, human being or machine, to beat Marcy's record. David Charbonneau, at Harvard, became aware that Earths would be much better to find if he looked at tiny actors called M-dwarfs alternatively than actors like sunlight - and that he could use yard telescopes to find them! Unlike those in other races, the fighting scientists actually check with and cooperate with one another. But only one would be the first to find Earth's twin. Reflection Earth is poised narrate this traditional event as the breakthrough is made.
