Exoplanet Research May Be Missing Forest For the Trees

After years of focus on individual exoplanets and their systems, the time has come to focus on bigger picture sections of exoplanet research.

IMAGE: An artist’s rendering of OGLE-2005-BLG-390L b, which was discovered through gravitational microlensing. It is one of the most remote exoplanets yet seen, at a distance of about 20,000 light-years. CREDIT: ESO

In my continuing theme to explore all things exoplanet this week, I want to give a shoutout to Eos magazine for celebrating exoplanets in…