SPIRou: New tool may unveil inhabitable worlds
Monday, November 4, 2013 - 13:30
in Astronomy & Space
Funding for SPIRou, a spectropolarimeter and a high-precision velocimeter optimized for both the detection of habitable Earth twins orbiting around nearby red dwarf stars and the study of the formation of Sun-like stars and their planets, was confirmed today by the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) observatory.