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by admin on May 1, 2010

How Hubble, you need to take a picture of a planet?

Hello, How Hubble, in parallel, as "Large Binocular Telescope" you need to take a picture of an exoplanet? Or the number of mirrors the size of Hubble needs to connect to a picture of an exoplanet? Thank you in advance!

It's not a question of openness. You might have a hundred telescopes all being captured is very, very exposed to images of the stars. The reason why we can not see a planet because it is lost in the brightness of the star. It's like trying to detect Fire Fly next to a nuclear explosion, a large pair of binoculars will not help you see the progress of a fire better. There is a proposal, although an interferometer from space. The concept base which is very simple. The final property of the wave is interfering light and acts like a wave. It seems that a wave of sin, so that it interferes is either amplified or canceled depending on how they align. The interferometer will cancel the starlight, This allows an unobstructed view of the world.

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