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And in the search for planets, and in the future, planets that might be like Earth, we're able to help address some of the most amazing and mysterious questions that have faced humankind for centuries.

Knowing that small planets are very common, you can just do the math.

And there are just so many stars and so many planets out there, that surely, there must be life somewhere out there.

And you'll see here the planets as well as some spacecraft that are also orbiting our sun.

And you can see the constellations overlaid and again, so many stars with planets.

There's a special patch of the sky where we have thousands of planets.

It's a system of about five planets.

We know of a dozen planets that orbit two stars, and there's likely many more out there.

If we could visit one of those planets, you literally would see two sunsets and have two shadows.

And actually, it's so hot, we can't visit any of these planets, but if we could, we would melt long before we got there.

So out of all these planets out there, and the variety is just simply astonishing, we mostly want to find the planets that are Goldilocks planets, we call them.

We have to be able to assess the greenhouse gases on other planets.

The Star Trek Enterprise had to travel vast distances at incredible speeds to orbit other planets so that First Officer Spock could analyze the atmosphere to see if the planet was habitable or if there were lifeforms there.

But those are not small planets like Earth.

They're big, hot planets that are easy to see.

So when it comes to other planets, other Earths, in the future when we can observe them, what kind of gases would we be looking for?

How are we going to find these planets?

There are actually many ways to find planets, several different ways.

And the starshade is a very specially shaped screen and the goal is to fly that starshade so it blocks out the light of a star so that the telescope can see the planets directly.

And the goal is to block out the starlight to incredible precision so that we'd be able to see the planets directly.

In this case of searching for other planets like Earth, we are making a new kind of map of the nearby stars and of the planets orbiting them, including [planets] that actually might be inhabitable by humans.

And this is called the James Webb Space Telescope, and that will launch in 2018, and that's what we're going to do, we're going to look at a special kind of planet called transient exoplanets, and that will be our first shot at studying small planets for gases that might indicate the planet is habitable.

CA: So this obsession with the search for Goldilocks planets in exactly the right place with water and whatever, that's a very parochial assumption, perhaps.

There'll be a satellite called TESS that will discover planets outside of our solar system.

And it may, for the first time ever, be capable of finding life on planets outside of our solar system.

So the embers from those stars actually then form the new stars that we see, most of which turn out to have planets going around them.

And one of the really surprising results in the last 20 years has been the discovery of other planets going around other stars.

And until 1995, we didn't even know the existence of any other planets, other than going around our own sun.

But now, there are almost 2,000 other planets orbiting other stars that we can now detect, measure masses for.

There are Jupiter-like planets that are hot, there are other planets that are icy, there are water worlds and there are rocky planets like the Earth, so-called "super-Earths," and there have even been planets that have been speculated diamond worlds.

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