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Anglo-Australian_Planet_Search Long-term southern hemisphere program being carried with the 3.9 m Anglo-Australian Telescope.

Arizona_Search_for_Planets_(ASP) Full scale survey project for extra-solar planets. Overview and publications.

The_Big_Occulting_Steerable_Satellite_(project) Mission designed to provide improved resolution of closely spaced objects with comparable brightnesses (binary stars, microlensing events) and to facilitate separation of dim objects from nearby brig

California_and_Carnegie_Planet_Search The site of California and Carnegie program for extrasolar planet search.

Darwin_Space_Inferometer_Project_(ESA_SCIENCE) Overview and updates on the ESA's Earth-like planet hunting space-telescope project.

Eddington_(ESA_SCIENCE) ESA space-telescope designed to seek out extrasolar planets and investigate the internal structure of stars. (Mission cancelled Nov. 2003)


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