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stargazer3
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Hello Physics Forums!
I've just read about the discovery of GJ 667Cc, and it made me ponder on how do astonomers develop the sequence of stars to be examined in search for exoplanets? I know that some telescopes, like Kepler mission, are just collecting raw data from a certain area of space, but what about more flexible observatories? In other words, why, discovering so many distant exoplanets, we know so little about the closest to Sun hundred or so stars (we are trying to find the closest habitable planet, aren't we)?
I've just read about the discovery of GJ 667Cc, and it made me ponder on how do astonomers develop the sequence of stars to be examined in search for exoplanets? I know that some telescopes, like Kepler mission, are just collecting raw data from a certain area of space, but what about more flexible observatories? In other words, why, discovering so many distant exoplanets, we know so little about the closest to Sun hundred or so stars (we are trying to find the closest habitable planet, aren't we)?