HabEx – The Future Telescope For Exoplanets

This is not a sunflower: these are the unfolding steps of the starshade of a space telescope.
Its name is HabEx, which stands for “habitable exoplanet” observatory. 
But what is a starshade?
Well, among all the methods astronomers use to observe, find and track exoplanets, there is the so-called “direct-image” method. It consists of literally taking a snapshot of an exoplanet, possibly an Earth-like one. Needless to say, this is a difficult task, perhaps one of the hardest goals that astronomers are trying to reach nowadays.
This is not a sunflower: these are the unfolding steps of the starshade of a space telescope.
Its name is HabEx, which stands for “habitable exoplanet” observatory. 
But what is a starshade?
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Credits: Nasa/Shutterstock/Storyblocks/Elon Musk/SpaceX/ESA/ESO/ Flickr

Video Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:54 Transit method
02:25 Hot jupiters
02:54 HabEX Telescope
03:57 Coronagraphs
05:11 Starshade coronagraph
06:10 Apodization
06:40 Rogue planets

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[mm-dwrr]

HabEx looks like the most beautiful piece of space origami. The one who designed it gets my vote. ✔

[igorastral]

Welcome everybody to the Age of Space Telescopes

[marufulislam]

when will we know which observetory is selected?

explore the other 2 concepts plzz

[jakelynbrook]

Let’s get it into the heavens and get it employed!🛸✅😎

[Vorador]

Awesome mission project and great video!

[kenjohnson]

Why launch an entirely new telescope? Just put the star shade somewhere in front of Webb or Hubble.

[xPoTenTz]

Bro ain’t even let James Webb do anything yet

[Malfurionxtc]

Instead of spending money to forward mars colonisation, better rockets, better space suits, more funds on Artemis program, lets spend on more fancy telescopes to look at unreachable planets for God knows why O.o genius, pure genius...

[timesfly]

I think THEO (the habitable exoplanet observatory) is a much cooler name than HabEx

[wrong_dimension]

Kinda look like the chakra from hindu deti's weapons. Was that even a weapon 😅