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ESOcast 80: Follow a Live Planet Hunt!
The quest to find alien worlds beyond our Solar System is one of the most exciting fields of modern astronomy. Now members of the public have a unique opportunity to go behind the scenes and follow astronomers on a planet hunt as it happens. This ESOcast introduces the Pale Red Dot campaign, a new project that will provide the public with unprecedented access to the search for an Earth-like exoplanet around our nearest stellar neighbour, Proxima Centauri.
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Credits
ESO
Editing: Herbert Zodet.
Web and technical support: Mathias André and Raquel Yumi Shida.
Written by: Rebecca Davies, Oana Sandu and Guillem Anglada.
Narration: Sara Mendes da Costa.
Music: Johan B. Monell (www.johanmonell.com).
Footage and photos: ESO, L. Calçada, M. Kornmesser, Nick Risinger (skysurvey.org), B. Tafreshi (twanight.org), Y. Beletsky (LCO), S. Brunier, NASA, ESA/Hubble, and A. Santerne.
Directed by: Herbert Zodet.
Executive producer: Lars Lindberg Christensen.
Courtesy of European Southern Observatory
Source: http://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann16003/
