Ground-based Telescopes and a Shared Orbiting Starshade Can Directly See Earth-like Exoplanets
by Brian Wang from NextBigFuture.com on (#74YGM)
Imaging earth like exoplanets around Sun-like stars from the ground is challenging. We have never done it and here is an advance that could make it possible. A Nature paper predicts the performance of a hybrid space-ground approach that combines a large ground-based telescope, such as the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), the Thirty Meter Telescope ...