• Question: Have you ever found a planet orbiting a star by seeing the light being blocked by the planet every time it orbits the star?

    Asked by Anakin to Eimear on 26 Feb 2018.
    • Photo: Eimear Tuohy

      Eimear Tuohy answered on 26 Feb 2018:


      No I haven’t. I believe a few planets have been discovered like this and it allows scientists to calculate their radius.

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