NASA's new planet hunter to directly image worlds orbiting more distant, fainter stars - Devdiscourse

According to NASA, the space-based observatory will use its Coronagraph Instrument, an advanced coronagraph designed to directly image planets in orbit around other stars by greatly reducing the glare from the host star. It consists of a system of masks, pris…

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, one of NASA's most prolific planet hunters which is currently under construction, will directly image older, smaller, cooler and dimmer worlds with detail up to… [+2165 chars]

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