What Can We Actually Find on an Exoplanet? Part 2: A Machine to Find Another Earth

The James Webb Space Telescope. Its eventual successor, the Habitable Worlds Observatory, is being designed for one job above all: to directly image another living Earth. Credit: NASA (public domain).

The Habitable Worlds Observatory is being built for one purpose: to directly image another living Earth. Inside the coronagraph that must block ten billion times the planet’s light, the picometer-stable mirror we don’t yet know how to build, and the messy problem of reading an atmosphere.

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