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Technological advances, most notably in high-resolution spectroscopy, led to the rapid detection of many new exoplanets: astronomers could detect exoplanets indirectly by measuring their gravitational influence on the motion of their host stars.

How can we detect exoplanets?

Meanwhile, new methods are being developed to detect exoplanets.

It should be capable of detecting exoplanets smaller than the Earth.The observatories will monitor regions of the galaxy continuously, in order to detect exoplanets as they pass between their host star and the Earth.

It had gone into emergency mode 36 hours earlier, just before Kepler was about to begin a campaign to detect exoplanets by gravitational microlensing.

Many of the techniques now used to detect exoplanets—such as observations of their gravitational effect on the movements of their parent stars, or mini-eclipses that occur regularly as they pass in front of the stars as seen from Earth aren't sensitive enough to detect the presence of an exomoon.

Kepler detects exoplanets by staring continually at 150,000 stars and recording their brightness for long periods.

The Kepler telescope, launched in March 2009, detects exoplanets by looking for a periodic dimming in stellar brightness, caused by a planet transiting (passing in front of) a star.

It will use an array of wide-field cameras to survey the brightest stars in the sun's neighborhood in hopes of detecting exoplanets such as gas giants and rocky, Earth-sized planets.

Kepler, now partially disabled, detected exoplanets by staring at a patch of sky for months at a time and monitoring the brightness of any stars that might harbor planets.

"We're at a point now in exoplanet science where we are moving beyond just detecting exoplanets, and into the exciting science of understanding them".