PLATO,proposed extrasolar planet mission

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PLATO,proposed extrasolar planet mission
Computer artwork of the proposed European Space Agency (ESA) mission called PLATO. PLATO will be a wide-field mission comprised of lots of small telescopes on a single platform,and its jobs is to find all,or very nearly,of the transiting exoplanets around the sky's brightest stars. It differs from the successful US mission Kepler,which scans a relatively small patch of sky. Kepler has found hundreds of new candidate planets,but because they are mostly orbiting faint stars there is very often little scope for follow-up observations. Because PLATO will only scan bright stars,follow-up observations can be made on candidate stars to confirm suspected findings and also,in some cases,to carry out additional research where the planets are confirmed
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