Instrumentation

Starshade

A concept for blocking a star's light not inside the instrument but far in front of the telescope — a large, precisely-shaped screen flown tens of thousands of kilometres away, casting a deep shadow so an orbiting planet stands clear. A proposed external alternative to the coronagraph for future exoplanet-imaging missions.

Direct Imaging
Coronagraph

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Coronagraph

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Starshade

Facilities, methods & instruments

Used across the frontier

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Starshade

Facilities, methods & instruments

Used across the frontier

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