http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/stories/person/20220 Stories and external links referencing a person (RSS) en http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/foundations/articles/laser-precision-added-search-new-earths <!--paging_filter--><p>Harvard scientists have unveiled a new laser-measuring device that they say will provide a critical advance in the resolution of current planet-finding techniques, making the discovery of Earth-sized planets possible.</p><p>The discovery of planets outside of our solar system, called “<a title="" href="http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/">exoplanets</a>,” is one of the hottest fields in astronomy and holds great promise to increase our understanding of Earth’s solar system and of how life first took hold on this planet.</p><p><a href="http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/foundations/articles/laser-precision-added-search-new-earths">read more</a></p> Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:46:48 -0400 404132862 20219 at http://harvardscience.harvard.edu