NASA Starshade Would Enable Astronomers To Directly Image Rocky Exoworlds

A NASA-led team is hoping to take a short cut in directly imaging extrasolar earthlike planets. The idea is to use what they term a hybrid telescope composed of an orbital starshade coupled with the next generation of extremely large ground-based optical telescopes. Positioned some 175,000km away in an elliptical Earth orbit, the starshade would […]