Kavli Affiliate: Bruce Macintosh | First 5 Authors: Kyle Van Gorkom, Ramya M. Anche, Christopher B. Mendillo, Jessica Gersh-Range, Justin Hom | Summary: NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) concept and the 2020 Decadal Survey’s recommendation to develop a large space telescope to "detect and characterize Earth-like extrasolar planets" requires new starlight suppression technologies to probe […]
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