Studying the differences and commonalities in these various star systems is giving great insight into the formation processes that generate planets.
Not sure how much aperture it would take (enormously more than Kepler has, that's for sure) but a similar mission to study a region of stars in the LMC for planets would be profoundly interesting.
I suppose I could find the 'average' distance to the Kepler patch and inverse square it out to 160,000 light years and get a number. If smaller than HST it would be a feasible mission . . . .
Not sure how much aperture it would take (enormously more than Kepler has, that's for sure) but a similar mission to study a region of stars in the LMC for planets would be profoundly interesting.
I suppose I could find the 'average' distance to the Kepler patch and inverse square it out to 160,000 light years and get a number. If smaller than HST it would be a feasible mission . . . .
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