From StarTalk.

The conversation tackles how large a telescope must be to directly resolve features on nearby exoplanets, whether combining many Earth-based telescopes could achieve that, and what we can currently see (mostly a few pixels or giant planets). They reference Voyager 1’s 1990 “Pale Blue Dot,” discuss future missions like the Habitable Worlds Observatory potentially detecting specular “ocean glint,” and broaden habitability beyond classic “habitable zones” to include icy moons such as Europa and Enceladus. The panel touches on universal physics (Kepler/Newton), the limits of Bode’s law, planetary migration, and how moons may complicate the search for life.

From ‘Answering Questions About Alien Exoplanets, with Anjali Tripathi’: https://youtu.be/flE3ukF8hRo?si=oOZrX50CTL_l1NFH

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