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Is it true that telescopes new light on the terrestrial planets around distant stars?

Powerful new telescopes will shed light not only on gas giants but on the abundance of small terrestrial planets around distant stars, and also show if their orbits are stable and protected by large planets of cosmic bombardment. New telescopes can find evidence of planets buried in the ozone layer and oxygen, in sufficient concentrations imply the existence of life.

Our methods of detection and optical and interpretation spectra to improve all the time. A few decades ago, nobody would have suspected that we have found a planet, let alone 333, simply by watching stars "wobble". But it makes sense. At about the same method we used to find Uranus and Neptune. We observed disturbances in the use (near) the orbits of planets, and were able to find planets "Nipple" on them, which is essentially the same thing that is causing the wobbles of the stars ... an attractive area "tug." Almost all studies exoplanet are made indirectly. I think I have heard that some have actually been imaged, but most of the time, everything we know today those we have found is the analysis of proxy data. (IE when a planet transits its star, one can observe the difference in spectra of the star, and determine what elements are present in the planet.) I have also recently been informed of "finding development of solar systems "(excellent article, if you can find a copy of the February 2009 issue of the journal Astronomy, is a good read.) terrestrial planets will be difficult to find, simply because, as far as we know ... they are much less massive and much less large compared to the "hot Jupiter" and other massive planets, we have been finding. However, technology, and interpretation accurate to the increase of observational data in this area fairly quickly, it is certainly a subject of interest and it is becoming more detection techniques valid. Have you read the Humble Space Telescope (yes I spelled that right, I do not mean Hubble)? MOST (the Canadians are awesome!)? I think that one is the project that you would be * most * (hahahaha, yes, bad pun) interest

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