NIST, CU to Build Instrument to Help Search for Earth-like Planets
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 - 21:35
in Astronomy & Space
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will collaborate with the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU) to build and apply a custom laser-based instrument--a frequency comb--to help search for extrasolar Earth-like planets.
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