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‘Planet hunter’ space telescope given green light to explore worlds outside our solar system

Category: Technology
Duration: 00:06:20
Publish Date: 2020-11-13 13:00:28
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The planet hunter, the world’s first space telescope, has been given the green light to study atmospheres of planets outside our own solar system. Professor Giovanna Tinetti says it’ll give a fuller picture of what exoplanets are made of, how they were formed, how they evolve and provide us with a better understanding of our own planet too. Plus, a two-million-year-old skull of a distant human cousin is discovered, Elon Musk ‘tests positive and negative for Covid-19 and, TikTok survives another day in the US.


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