Searching for Earth-sized exoplanets with the POET mission

Searching for Earth-sized exoplanets with the POET mission

View larger. | Artist’s concept of the TRAPPIST-1 system, including rocky, Earth-sized exoplanet TRAPPIST-1e (lower right). In 2029, Canada’s POET micro-satellite mission will start searching for similar Earth-sized exoplanets around small, cool stars. Image via NASA/ ESA/ CSA/ STScI/ Joseph Olmsted (STScI)/ Webb Space Telescope. Astronomers have found a growing number of Earth-sized exoplanets around other stars. But there are many more waitin…