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- noun astronomy A form of
coronagraph disk designed to preventstarlight from interfering with the observation ofexoplanets
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The telescope would be 35,000 to 50,000 miles away from the starshade, but its aperture would be shaded by the distant barrier petal.
First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011
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The telescope would be 35,000 to 50,000 miles away from the starshade, but its aperture would be shaded by the distant barrier petal.
First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011
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An intricately designed opening in the starshade would theoretically allow a space-based telescope some thirty-five thousand miles away to peek through and see only the tiny planets and, with an attached spectroscope, learn about its component parts.
First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011
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An intricately designed opening in the starshade would theoretically allow a space-based telescope some thirty-five thousand miles away to peek through and see only the tiny planets and, with an attached spectroscope, learn about its component parts.
First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011
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As proposed, the starshade would be launched wrapped tight and then would be opened like a travel umbrella using newly declassified technology at its outer-space destination to a size of 170 or even 250 feet in diameter.
First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011
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As proposed, the starshade would be launched wrapped tight and then would be opened like a travel umbrella using newly declassified technology at its outer-space destination to a size of 170 or even 250 feet in diameter.
First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011
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Cash's starshade would resemble a many-petaled sunflower-if sunflowers were matte-black and about half a football field in diameter.
SEEDMAGAZINE.COM 2009
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Polidan's team has built a scale model of Cash's starshade and tested its light-suppression capabilities in a long vacuum chamber, but most of the work remains theoretical, locked inside relatively inexpensive computer simulations.
SEEDMAGAZINE.COM 2009
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Cash has spent the last five years designing a starshade that could augment JWST.
SEEDMAGAZINE.COM 2009
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Though a starshade could significantly complicate JWST's mission, JWST's project scientist,
SEEDMAGAZINE.COM 2009
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