How close are we to discovering another habitable world? 🌍
New open-source software folds wavefront error, sensitivity, & control into exposure-time estimates for future telescopes. This can help designers plan missions that spot + study Earth-like planets. 🔭
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A primary goal of NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) concept is to explore with high completeness the habitable zones (HZs) of ∼100 stellar systems and potentially acquire spectra of ∼25 terres