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jho37

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Explain why it is so difficult to see planets around other stars.
 
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From where did the molecular oxygen in Earth's atmosphere originate?
 
  A) photosynthesis from plant life
  B) photosynthesis from single-celled organisms
  C) outgassing from volcanoes
  D) atmospheric bombardment
  E) oxidation of surface rocks


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Reply #1 on: Jul 27, 2018
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Planets are very faint compared to the stars they orbit. Moreover, they are very close to their parent star compared to the distance between stars. On the 1-to-10 billion scale, where the Sun is the size of a grapefruit and Earth is a pinhead about 15 meters way, the nearest star is several thousand kilometers away. Together, this makes it extremely difficult to distinguish the faint light of a planet from the star it orbits. (Nevertheless, massive Jupiter-like planets have been indirectly detected orbiting around nearby stars.)

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