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Originally Posted by higginsdj
I do find it interesting that they have a requirement that it be directly imaged. One could say, for example, it does not exist unless I have seen it with my own eyes - but at some point one has trusted the technology to believe that if the technology has seen it, then they believe it exists. So is it a trust issue for technology/method!
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Most of the discoveries are based on science along with Photometrics. A lot of discoveries eg: Kepler 1200 candidates each single one is to be closely examine using other methods before confirmation.