what stars can see Earth as a transiting exoplanet?

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what stars can see Earth as a transiting exoplanet?

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Post by notFritzArgelander » Wed Oct 21, 2020 7:42 pm

https://phys.org/news/2020-10-exoplanets.html

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Re: what stars can see Earth as a transiting exoplanet?

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Post by helicon » Thu Oct 22, 2020 1:44 pm

This is an interesting perspective. Observers on almost 300 exoplanets might be able to identity the biomarkers that show that earth has life. Flipping that on its head, it is true that with regard to those exoplanets, we have yet to able to detect signs of life and/or fully habitable conditions.

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