So You Want To Be An Astronomer & Exoplanet Hunter

Somewhere right now, a space telescope is staring at a single patch of sky and tracking thousands of stars at once — watching for a flicker of dimming light so faint that one part in ten thousand counts as a signal. That flicker might be noise. Or it might be the shadow of a world no human has ever seen, crossing in front of its star hundreds of light-years away. Welcome to the real work of exopla...