Telescope to Seek Earthlike Planet in Alpha Centauri System

A scientific research consortium on Tuesday announced plans to build and launch a privately financed telescope the size of a small washing machine in hopes of finding an Earthlike planet in the Alpha Centauri system, one of our closest cosmic neighbors.

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CrazyNeutrino said:

Telescope to Seek Earthlike Planet in Alpha Centauri System

A scientific research consortium on Tuesday announced plans to build and launch a privately financed telescope the size of a small washing machine in hopes of finding an Earthlike planet in the Alpha Centauri system, one of our closest cosmic neighbors.

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Privately Funded Orbiting Telescope. I’d like to see that.

I hope it has a good coronagraph, because it’s going to need one. I still don’t understand why the two possible planets around Alpha Centauri remain in the “we still don’t know” category.

Couldn’t some other telescope do this work? eg. the VLT, LBT or failing that the future space telescopes JWST or Euclid?