Hunt for habitable planets from 2024

LONDON: A massive search for habitable planets orbiting alien stars will be launched in 2024. The European Space Agency mission will identify and study thousands of exoplanetary systems (those orbiting a star other than the Sun) with stress on discovering Earthsized planets and super-Earths in the habitable zone of their parent star — the distance from the star where liquid water could exist.

Britain will play a leading role in the search with the planet-hunting mission will seeing strong involvement from several UK institutes , with Don Pollacco from the University of Warwick heading the consortium . PLATO (Planetary Transits and Oscillations of stars) will address two themes — the conditions for planet formation and the emergence of life and how does the solar system work.

It will monitor nearby stars, searching for dips in brightness as their planets transit in front of them, temporarily blocking out starlight . By using 34 telescopes and cameras, PLATO will search for planets around up to a million stars.

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