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Know about the innovative instrument which can picture exoplanets

New Delhi: An exoplanet is a planet outside the Solar System. For centuries philosophers and scientists supposed that extrasolar planets existed, but there was no way of detecting them.The first confirmed detection of exoplanet came

India TV News Desk Updated on: June 16, 2014 7:40 IST


The FIRST instrument on the Subaru telescope uses 18 fiber optic cables to sample spots on a larger 8-meter main mirror. The 3-meter Lick and 8-meter Subaru telescopes are already equipped with adaptive optics, which creates sharper images by removing the jiggle in stars caused by turbulence in the atmosphere.

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