Inflatable StarShade Will Be Used to Image Earthlike Exoplanets
by Brian Wang from NextBigFuture.com on (#6ZCD6)
John Mather, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, is designing the first family of ISEE's (Inflatable Starshade for Earthlike Exoplanets) with sizes from 35 to 100 meters in diameter. A starshade would enable any telescope to observe exoplanets, a top priority for astronomy worldwide. Compared with other starshade concepts, they aim for a lower mass, cost ...