HARPS-NEF to comb Kepler targets for new Earths

Monday, April 20, 2009 - 14:35 in Astronomy & Space

Astronomers have announced plans to build an ultra-stable, high-precision spectrograph for the Science and Technology Facilities Council's 4.2-m William Herschel Telescope (WHT - part of the Isaac Newton Group or ING on La Palma) in an effort to discover habitable Earth-like planets around other stars.

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