Habitable-zone Planet Finder and Hobby Eberly Telescope (IMAGE)

Penn State

Habitable-zone Planet Finder and Hobby Eberly Telescope

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A candidate planet outside our solar system was validated using data from the Habitable-zone Planet Finder Spectrograph, a Penn State-led near-infrared spectrograph recently installed on the 10m Hobby-Eberly Telescope at McDonald Observatory in Texas .

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Gudmundur Stefansson (left) and Ethan Tweedie Photography (right)

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