article_snippet.sent: The findings - made with a relatively small telescope - suggest we may soon have the opportunity to examine other distant worlds beyond the solar system in unprecedented detail.
article_snippet.sent: And subproject leader Dr Kevin Heng said the research was important because the research used a 'dinky four-metre telescope from the ground to do measurements of the quality as the Hubble Space Telescope.'
article_snippet.sent: Comparable measurements of a planet have been made before, using large ground-based telescope (with mirrors up to 10 metres in size) and the Hubble Space Telescope.
article_snippet.sent: But this research used a comparatively small telescope, just 3.6 metres wide, at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in La Silla, Chile.
highlights_snippet.sent: Findings were comparable in quality to the Hubble Space Telescope .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: But Swiss researchers used a 'relatively dinky' telescope, suggesting the method could be replicated by other astronomers to study exoplaents .