Explore Exoplanets: The Discoverers; Ep 13, Bruce Macintosh (Part 1)

Explore Exoplanets: The Discoverers

Exoplanet Trifecta: Seeing and Believing 🤩👀🔭🪐🪐🪐 What is it like to spend eight years chasing down hundreds of possible planets that turn out to be false positives, and then discover three planets at once? It takes a special kind of believer—and skeptic—to find planets using the direct imaging method. Dr. Bruce Macintosh, Director of the University of California Observatories, describes how he became a believer in the HR 8799 system. Also in this episode: Bruce's LEAST favorite exoplanet!