The ghost of Sir Isaac Newton is haunting his great great great grand-niece, Dr. Ivonne! In this sitcom spoof, Newton is trying to catch up on all the science he missed over the past several hundred years, and is particularly curious about the discovery of planets orbiting other stars . Ivonne explains several common techniques of exoplanet discovery including the Radial Velocity technique (detecting a "wobble" in a star), Transit Photometry (measuring tiny dips in a star’s brightness as a planet passes), and Gravitational Lensing (a warping of a distant star’s light by a foreground planet’s gravity field). He even learns that there are planets that don't orbit stars, but rather exist floating in the dark spaces between stars!
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