A team of NASA researchers is developing new types of optical masks that could help enable the many orders of magnitude of starlight suppression needed for future space observatories to pick out very faint habitable exoplanets from the far brighter glare of their stellar hosts. One of the goals of NASA’s Astrophysics Division is to [...] The post Optical Vortex Phase Masks for the Detection of Habitable Worlds appeared first on Astrobiology .
Optical Vortex Phase Masks for the Detection of Habitable Worlds
