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by daveboling
Wed Apr 06, 2016 12:29 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Auroras and the Magnetosphere of Jupiter (2016 Apr 06)
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Re: APOD: Auroras and the Magnetosphere of Jupiter (2016 Apr 06)

Currently, exoplanets are detected through the wobble, or temporary dimming of the parent star, and perhaps in ways I have not read. Would it be possible to detect exoplanets, in systems where the orbital plane is orthogonal (or nearly so) to our direction from that system, through observation of th...