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Researchers developed a new coronagraph that could make it possible to see exoplanets that are normally obscured by light from their parent stars. The images show theoretical, experimental and simulated direct imaging measurements of an artificial exoplanet for various sub-diffraction star-planet separations along the y-axis with a 1000:1 star-planet contrast. In each image, the true location of the exoplanet is shown with the white crosshairs while the star is located at the origin.
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Nico Deshler, University of Arizona
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