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A New Solar Telescope at Paranal Is Being Built to Help Exoplanet Hunters Subtract a Star’s Noise
The Paranal solar ESPRESSO Telescope has begun observations at ESO’s Paranal site in Chile, giving astronomers a dedicated way to study the Sun as a stand-in for stellar noise that can obscure Earth-like exoplanets.
Key Takeaways
- PoET has begun observations at ESO’s Paranal site in Chile.
- The telescope studies the Sun to help astronomers model stellar noise in exoplanet data.
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