Reply #6: And in only 43 days.

[Thor_MN]

To see Earth from another system, if you were unlucky, it would take a year. If you were very lucky, it would take just over two years to confirm. Hits in just 43 days are going to be skewed towards the close orbiting planets, so most of these are toasty. The next several years should be very interesting.

We should be building a fleet of super space telescopes that can be used in an array to directly image other solar systems.