04-16-2018, 04:53 PM
A type of camera that can be used to detect the faint reflected light of exoplanets has been built, the largest of it's kind, for use with the Hale telescope at Mt Palomar. Researchers hope one day that an even larger version can be used with the TMT on Mauna Kea. With a telescope as large as the TMT, it may be possible to detect signs of life in the atmospheres of planets in habitual zones.
Won't that be something?
https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/t...-darkness/
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Won't that be something?
https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/t...-darkness/
“Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We do this thing not because it is easy, but because we thought it would be easy.”