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What Is the Chief Difficulty in Attempting to Detect Planets

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What is the chief difficulty in attempting to detect planets around other stars?


A) Even the largest planets are typically at least a factor of 10 times smaller than their host stars.
B) Planets do not emit visible light. They are typically at least a billion times fainter than their host stars.
C) Planets do not glow in the infrared, so infrared telescopes cannot be used to study them, either.
D) A and B
E) A, B, and C

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