A team of NASA researchers is developing new types of optical masks that could help enable the many orders of magnitude of starlight suppression needed for future space observatories to pick out very faint habitable exoplanets from the far brighter glare of their stellar hosts.
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Astrobiology, Astrophysics, Astrophysics Division, Science-enabling Technology, Technology Highlights
Posted on
March 24, 2026
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