Public lecture presented by Bruce Macintosh
This lecture presents the first-ever images of planets orbiting other stars. It describes the advances that made these observations possible and present the Gemini Planet Imager, a new advanced-technology camera specifically designed for exoplanet studies and deployed in 2013 on the Gemini Telescope in Chile. It then describes the future of exoplanetary studies and the prospects for achieving the ultimate goal -- the detection of a second “pale blue dot,” an Earth twin with evidence for water and extrasolar life.
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