Repurposed Spy Space Telescope Could Directly Image Alien Worlds | Video

Thursday, February 18, 2016 - 14:00 in Astronomy & Space

NASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope's (WFIRST) Coronagraph instrument can block out the glare of a star giving it the ability to measure the atmospheres of orbiting planets.

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