UCF Researchers Are Developing Tools to Help Find Habitable Planets
Researchers at the University of Central Florida are developing photonics-based technology to assist NASA's future Habitable Worlds Observatory. This project aims to enable the direct observation of rocky exoplanets by filtering out the intense light from their host stars.
NASA's Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) will be the premier exoplanet-hunting space telescope once it launches sometime in the 2040s. This large infrared/optical/ultraviolet space telescope will be the first observatory specifically designed to search for rocky planets orbiting within their parent stars' circumsolar habitable zones (HZs) and characterize their atmospheres. Its powerful suite of instruments will also enable cutting-edge astrophysics research to address the greatest cosmological mysteries astronomers face today.
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