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Astronomer Uses Kepler Telescope's Data in Hunt For Spacecraft from Other Worlds


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Geoff Marcy, UC Berkeley

Geoff Marcy hopes instruments at the Keck Observatory in Hawaii will spot an errant laser beam flashing from a distant star system.

Credit: University of California, Berkeley

In the field of planet hunting, Geoff Marcy is a star. After all, the astronomer at the University of California at Berkeley found nearly three-quarters of the first 100 planets discovered outside our solar system.

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