Sentences with phrase «faint planets next»
The instrument, called the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI), was designed, built, and optimized for imaging faint planets next to bright stars and probing their atmospheres, and studying dusty disks around young stars.
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The findings could also prove useful in optical systems, such as microscopes and telescopes, for viewing faint objects that are close to brighter objects — for example, a faint planet next to a bright star.
Not exact matches
The idea is to blot out the light of a star and zero in on a small planet, right next to it in the sky and 10 billion times fainter (at visible wavelengths) than it.