What Can We Actually Find on an Exoplanet? Part 2: A Machine to Find Another Earth

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The Habitable Worlds Observatory is being built for one purpose: to directly image another living Earth. Inside the coronagraph that must block ten billion times the planet's light, the picometer-stable mirror we don't yet know how to build, and the messy problem of reading an atmosphere.

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What Can We Actually Find on an Exoplanet? Part 2: A Machine to Find Another Earth

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