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CBS Evening News With Norah ODonnell-20220117-23:30:00

track it. they did it through online volunteer projects that allow anyone to look through nasa's telescope data for signs of planets beyond our solar system. that is pretty incredible ored s >> o'donnell: tonight, as the east coast digs out from a monster snowstorm, we're track ago new weather system that could hit later this week. plus details from the f.b.i. in a terror attacks in a texas synagogue. wind knocks out power to thousands and causes travel nightmares on the road and in the air. texas, hearing from a hostage of the terrifying moment of a nearly eleven-hour standoff. >> he was going to kill each of us. >> o'donnell: and the rabbi hailed as a here. >> i threw a chair at the gun and i headed for the door. >> o'donnell: what we're learning tonight about how the attacker got into the united states. on thisser martin luther king

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BBC News-20220125-03:22:00

don't know because hubble cannot go that far back. the other thing we will be able to do is look at x0 planets, do is look at xo planets, planets beyond our solar system and we will basically be able to search for life and look at their composition and look at their composition and look at their atmosphere and see if they had oxygen or water and, if they do, maybe we could find another earth. and that is basically what we want to do. we also want to look within our solar system at moons like europa where there are guises of water, maybe, if there are certain spots where there could be life within our solar system notjust be life within our solar system not just mars be life within our solar system notjust mars but some of the moons ofjupiter and saturn and elsewhere. it moons ofjupiter and saturn and elsewhere-— moons ofjupiter and saturn and elsewhere. it boggles the mind, can. elsewhere. it boggles the mind, can- thank _ elsewhere. it boggles the mind, can- thank you _ elsewhere. it boggles the mind, can. thank you for _ elsewhere. it boggles the mind, can. thank you for talking - elsewhere. it boggles the mind, can. thank you for talking us - can. thank you for talking us through it. we are ten days away now from the whole of the sporting world looking at china for the beijing winter olympics. it comes almost two years

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BBC News-20220125-04:21:00

we are seeing the pictures you had of it in its state two or three years ago so we have an idea of what it looks like. in a nutshell then, can you explain what is the challenge now for this telescope? what does it need to do? what it will do is look back almost to the beginning of time, almost to the big bang within 200 million years of the big bang. we will be able to see how the first stars and galaxies formed. we don't know because hubble cannot go that far back. the other thing we will be able to do is look at x0 planets, planets beyond our solar system and we will basically be able to search for life and look at their composition and look at their atmosphere and see if they had oxygen or water and, if they do, maybe we could find another earth. and that is basically what we want to do. we also want to look within our solar system at moons like europa where there are geysers of water, maybe, if there are certain spots where there

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The Hunt for Planet B-20211121-02:11:00

led by women taking that scientific direction somewhere else. taking it to try and understand could there possibly be life out there. >> do you have an estimate for how many nights you spent up at the dome? >> my gosh, between 2,000 and 2003 we spent so many nights up here. it's quite remote. >> there's no bathroom. no internet. >> there were so many creatures along this path -- >> when i started in the late 1990s we were trying to use planets using the small telescope at the observatory. we were using this new technique. it had never been done before, and people were skeptical. the whole thing was built on a shoestring budget. but it was so compelling to work on a project that had the possibility of detecting an earthlike planet in the future.

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The Hunt for Planet B-20211121-02:13:00

we had to be able to detect. >> in the beginning, it was a lonely field. very few planets were known. months would go by, not a new planet would be discovered. nevertheless, i knew the field would explode. i'd say, look, i know there's going to be so many planets we're not going to be able to count them all. they didn't believe it. they didn't hire me. then came kepler -- >> three, two, one, zero, and liftoff of the delta 2 rocket with kepler on a search for planets like our own. >> the pressures are building -- >> the kepler space telescope monitored one small section of the sky, and it found thousands of planets. another earth is undoubtedly out there, and our own mickey way galaxy we have hundreds of billions of stars. our universe has hundreds of billions of galaxies.

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The Hunt for Planet B-20211121-02:15:00

detected this way. they range from smaller than earth size to jupiter size. >> so eileen showed me this yesterday. >> look how long it is, too. >> we're hoping to find and identify the pool of transiting planets in the habitable zones of stars. not too hot and not too cold but just right for life. the goldilocks zone. >> one system that had two viable planet candidates that were very exciting. >> yeah. >> you want to study these candidates with the james webb space telescope. >> yes. >> actually, the question often comes up, how much time are we going to get for exoplanets. you know, if we find a rocky planet with a thin atmosphere in the habitable zone of an m star, do you have any idea how much telescope time we'll need to look at that atmosphere? >> let's kill it. >> given that our own atmosphere contains thousands of gases, we expect alien atmospheres to also contain thousands of gases. and my job is to figure out how

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The Hunt for Planet B-20211121-02:14:00

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

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The Hunt for Planet B-20211121-02:12:00

>> i do remember this path -- >> yeah. >> the path -- >> unfortunately i don't have the key right now. >> oh. >> there's nothing in there. just some empty shelves. >> this is not the astronomer's ideal weather conditions. >> isn't this a way to understand why we had to go to space? >> to find planets, you need stare unblinkingly. so besides the fact that the sun gets in our way sometimes, we have day, the weather does, too. so no observations are going to be done tonight. >> you spent a lot of years up here looking for exoplanets. did you find any? >> we found hundreds of periodic dimmings of light, but none turned out to be bona fide planet. the analogy i'd like to use is to imagine a skyscraper 80 stories high in new york city, and you've got all of these windows, and it's nighttime. all the windows are illuminated, and one person goes to one window and lowers the blinds by about a centimeter. that's the change in brightness

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The Hunt for Planet B-20211121-02:28:00

movie "contact" had come out. i had never heard of jill before, didn't know there was a connection between that movie and her. >> the jodie foster character is modelled on her. >> yeah, jill is one of my longest mentors. when we started, the study was considered pretty fringy. we didn't know if there were planets beyond our solar system. and we spent a lot of time building up credibility, making a distinction between ourselves and the folks who report seeing little green men in spaceships and being abducted. i mean, people would be writing books about the study pioneers, and it would be what's a nice girl like you doing in a place like this sort of questions. it was really hard. >> do you think there is life is out there? >> you know, nathaniel, whatever i think about life beyond earth doesn't matter a bit.

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The Hunt for Planet B-20211121-02:43:00

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