Scientists search for Earth-like planets

Astronomers from the University have joined a hunt to discover Earth-like planets. Scientists from St Andrews and Edinburgh are joining an international team to build an instrument that can analyse potential planets identified by - will be created in a project also involving Queen's University Belfast and the Universities of Geneva, Harvard and the Italian Institute of Astrophysics. The device will be installed on the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo at the Roque de Los Muchachos observatory in the Canary Islands. Collated images. Since its launch in March 2009, Kepler has been continually taking images of a single area of sky. From this data, researchers have identified 1200 stars that show indications of having planetary systems. Analysing data.
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