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    33SUNY Stonybrook & American Museum of Natural History, Professor
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    5 Smaller mirror = more planets!
     5Smaller mirror, more planets?!
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    77The James Webb Space Telescope, Hubble's successor, is being fitted with a special planet-detecting camera.  This device will throw away 80% of the light the telescope collects, but in doing so it will be able to take pictures of planets much closer to their parent stars than conventional techniques.  I will explain how this strange, less-is-more, detection method works along with examples of discoveries it has already made.