Upcoming Telescope Can Pick out Exoplanets Against Glare of Stars

An optical engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, California, Camilo Mejia Prada, shines a light on the interior of a testbed for an instrument called a coronagraph that will fly aboard the WFIRST space telescope. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Matthew Luem For the last few years, NASA has been quietly working away on a new space telescope […]

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