HabEx – The Future Telescope For Exoplanets
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This is not a sunflower: these are the unfolding steps of the starshade of a space telescope.
Its name is HabEx, which stands for “habitable exoplanet” observatory.
But what is a starshade?
Well, among all the methods astronomers use to observe, find and track exoplanets, there is the so-called “direct-image” method. It consists of literally taking a snapshot of an exoplanet, possibly an Earth-like one. Needless to say, this is a difficult task, perhaps one of the hardest goals that astronomers are trying to reach nowadays.
This is not a sunflower: these are the unfolding steps of the starshade of a space telescope.
Its name is HabEx, which stands for “habitable exoplanet” observatory.
But what is a starshade?
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1:54 transit method
2:25 hot jupiters
2:54 HabEX Telescope
3:57 coronagraphs
5:11 starshade coronagraph
6:10 apodization
6:40 rogue planets
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