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thanks Peter,
is it just me or is that article very confusing?
A five-year study of exoplanet data captured by the Kepler space observatory found that half the exoplanet candidates aren’t planets at all. They are either too small (brown dwarfs) or eclipsing binary stars (failed stars).
Righton, eclipsing binary stars are failed stars now. brown dwarfs are too small to be planets??
Wouldn't they have been making these detections all the time, its their interpretation of the data rather than the data presenting false positives? All Kepler is doing is detecting changes in starlight brightness yes, no?
Cheers
russ
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