to me personally, it is definitely there. >> this one -- there you are. >> there you are. >> good morning, everyone. sorry i'm late. >> hey, natalie. we have a good group in the room today. >> all right. well, the last few meetings we've had one planet candidate in each batch. >> yeah. >> we rely on a few core expert, and natalie's one of them. >> natalie was one of the leader of the kepler mission. >> kepler was so pioneering, it opened our eyes for the first time. tess is just finding objects around closer stars and smaller stars, as well. >> okay. transit -- >> how are you detecting these exoplanets? >> nowadays, the best way to find planets is by the transit technique. if this represents our star and this blue represents a planet, if you're lucky the planet will orbit such that it passes in front of a star as seen from the telescope. then the starlight drops by a tiny amount. thousands of planets have been