There’s a new planet hunter in town, and it’s got its sights set on nearby Earth-sized planets in the galactic neighborhood. Dubbed the Keck Planet Finder, or KPF for short, the new instrument at the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii achieved first light on November 9 by taking a light spectrum of the planet …



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