4 Future Space Telescopes NASA wants to build

NASA starshade deployment test for future exoplanet imaging telescopes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8KlX2OFg-s

NASA’s astrophysics roadmap has studied major future observatories spanning X-ray, UV/optical/IR, and far-IR — concepts such as Lynx, HabEx, LUVOIR, and Origins.

Technologies like deployable starshades block a star’s glare so a companion telescope can image Earth-like exoplanets directly.

Tuesday June 15th 2021