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1 Detecting Planets in Other Solar Systems…
“Direct Imaging”…? (Possible but Very Difficult!)

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5 Q: How to detect dim “Extrasolar Planets” (“Exoplanets”)?
A: Use Newton’s Third Law! (“Action-Reaction”… i.e., “Force-Counterforce”)

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7 “Doppler Shifts”…for Sound

8 “Doppler Shifts”…for Light

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12 Other Exoplanet Detection Methods (e.g., the Transit Method)

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16 The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia:

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23 The “Habitable Planets Catalog”:

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25 Detecting the “Molecules of Life” in Exoplanet Atmospheres…!


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