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Nola Taylor Redd

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Painting of a planet and a star.
exoplanets

New Exoplanet Search Strategy Claims First Discovery

By Nola Taylor Redd
February 18, 2020
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By watching for a special kind of flare, astronomers have identified the fingerprints of an Earth-size planet orbiting a distant star.

About the author

Nola Taylor Redd is a science journalist with a focus on space and astronomy. Her work has appeared in Scientific American, Smithsonian and Space.com, among other publications. She graduated from Agnes Scott College with a degree in English and astrophysics. She currently lives in Atlanta.

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