We know about thousands of exoplanets by now. But it's still a mystery, whether there are planets in the Alpha Centauri binary system, which is just next door to us. My guest today, Professor Peter Tuthill, is the Mission Leader for the TOLIMAN Telescope mission, which is designed to find those answers.

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• 00:00 Intro

• 01:29 Are there planets at Alpha Centauri

• 08:22 How can we know they are there

• 11:20 TOLIMAN Telescope

• 30:04 JWST experiments

• 37:34 Next big telescopes for planet hunting

• 48:38 Discovering many more exoplanets

• 51:50 Next generation of instruments

• 59:05 Outro

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