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This is Scientific Americans' 60-second science. I'm Steve Merski.

In the last two years, astronomers have found seven exoplanets around the star Trappist

1, only 40 light years away, as well as a planet called Proxima B, orbiting Proxima Centauri, a mere 4.2

light years from us.

I think now that we have these very nearby planets, what I'm seeing in the community

is all kinds of ingenuity in terms of designing ground-based telescopes, small space-based

telescopes that are specifically, they're specifically

intended to do just this one job.

Jill Tarter of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California.

SETI stands for the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

Tartar was the inspiration for the Jody Foster character in the movie Contact.

And I'm really amazed at what I'm seeing in terms of what might be possible,

not 20 years from now, but in five years from now, for reasonable amounts of money.

So the fact that these planets are now becoming places really is changing the scene. Tartar spoke on a panel

October 29th at a SETI session at Berkeley that was part of the biannual world conference of

science journalists. Also on the panel was Dan Wertheimer, chief scientist at the Berkeley

SETI Research Center, who talked about a proposal called Breakthrough Star Shot.

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