Starshade competition challenges students to block starlight for observing exoplanets - EurekAlert

Starshade competition challenges students to block starlight for observing exoplanets - EurekAlert
The Hybrid Observatory for Earth-like Exoplanets proposes pairing the newest and largest ground-based telescopes with a starshade orbiting Earth to obstruct the light from a host star to identify and characterize an exoplanet. AIP, with NASA and SPS, is organ…
image: AIP, with support from NASA and the Society of Physics Students, asks undergraduates in the physical sciences to help design the first hybrid observatory.view more  Credit: AIP WASHINGTON, O… [+4643 chars] Read More



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