Hunt For Planets
Crossing faces of half a million nearby bright stars for habitable worlds By: BR Sunkara
User: Sunkara Bhaskara Rao
Astronomers expected to have a satellite
called the Wide-Field Infrared Survey
Telescope (WFIRST) which was
cataloguing planets that are too far away
from their host stars to be spotted.
A direct imaging telescope used one of two
methods to block out the light of host stars
and let it detect fainter planets in orbit
around them.
WFIRST is enabled it to image extra solar
planets directly. Another option was a
Star-Shade, an orbiting piece of opaque
material that positioned itself at some
distance from a space telescope and
block the star’s light from there.
The Transiting extra solar planet Survey
Satellite hunts for planets crossing the
faces of half a million nearby bright stars
for habitable worlds.
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