A Special Spectrograph.

The Telescopio Nazionale Galileo, late afternoon, Roque de Los Muchachos, La Palma
April 16, 2012

The Italian National Telescope (the Galileo) is getting a new scientific instrument to look for planets outside our solar system. I remember a childhood astronomy book which said that we would never know whether there are planets outside our own solar system, because they are much, much too small and much much much too far away. That’s all changed in the last few years. There’s a class of instruments called…

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