Chinese Scientists Complete a Concept Study for a 6-Meter Space Telescope to Find Habitable Exoplanets
Updated: 2023-07-29 18:25:41
Skip to content Universe Today Space and astronomy news Menu Videos Newsletter Podcast Contact Us Support Us Log in Illustration of the proposed Tainlin Spacecraft . Credit : CNSA Posted on July 29, 2023 July 29, 2023 by Brian Koberlein Chinese Scientists Complete a Concept Study for a 6-Meter Space Telescope to Find Habitable Exoplanets We have discovered more than 5,400 planets in the universe . These worlds range from hot jovians that closely orbit their star to warm ocean worlds to cold gas giants . While we know they are there , we don’t know much about them . Characteristics such as mass and size are fairly straightforward to measure , but other properties such as temperature and atmospheric composition are more difficult . So the next generation of telescopes will try to capture
Skip to content Universe Today Space and astronomy news Menu Videos Newsletter Podcast Contact Us Support Us Log in The NASA ESA CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured a high-resolution image of a tightly bound pair of actively forming binary stars , known as Herbig-Haro 46 47, in near-infrared light . NASA , ESA , CSA , J . DePasquale STScI CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO Posted on July 28, 2023 July 28, 2023 by Carolyn Collins Petersen JWST Pierces Through a Thick Nebula to Reveal Newly Forming Binary Stars In 1985, the physicist Heinz Pagels wrote that star birth was a veiled and secret event . 8221 That’s because the stellar crêches hide the action . But , ever since the advent of infrared astronomy , astronomers have been able to lift that veil . In particular , the Hubble Space Telescope has