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The flower-shaped starshade that might help us detect Earth-like planets | Jeremy Kasdin
Category: Technology
Duration: 00:06:38
Publish Date: 2014-04-17 10:01:01
Description: Astronomers believe that every star in the galaxy has a planet, one fifth of which might harbor life. Only we haven't seen any of them -- yet. Jeremy Kasdin and his team are looking to change that with the design and engineering of an extraordinary piece of equipment: a flower petal-shaped "starshade" positioned 50,000 km from a telescope to enable imaging of planets about distant stars. It is, he says, the "coolest possible science."
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