Russia will begin hunt for extrasolar planets
Thursday, February 2, 2012 - 09:01
in Astronomy & Space
Located just south of Saint Petersburg on Pulkovo Heights, one of the greatest Russian Observatories of all times the Pulkovo Observatory is about to embark on a very noble study. According to the head of the Institute for Space Research, Lev Zelyony, the Soviet telescopes are about to turn their eyes towards deep skies in search of extrasolar planets. Scientists from the Pulkovo Observatory are planning to use ground-based instruments to study the transit of planets around their parent stars, Zelyony said at a roundtable meeting at RIA Novosti headquarters in Moscow.