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Wildest Idea in Astronomy Might Photograph an Earth-like Planet

We have found over 6,000 exoplanets, planets orbiting other stars out there in the Universe. But, we’ve still not managed to take an image of an Earth-like planet.

Despite all our recent advancements in telescopes, stars are just so incredibly bright that they drown out the tiny amount of light reflected off their planets.

But a brand new paper published by Soliman et al. has proposed a way of detecting Earth-like exoplanets in the most sci-fi way possible: not with a bigger space telescope, or with a better camera.

But a 99-metre-wide umbrella, in space! This video explores the plan to use this ‘starshade’ with the next generation of ground-based telescopes, like the Extremely Large Telescope...

Dr. Becky

astrophysicist

Wildest Idea in Astronomy Might Photograph an Earth-like Planet

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