NASA to Hunt for Exoplanets with Space Telescope Featuring Shape-Shifting Mirrors

NASA will directly image exoplanets for the first time using its 'Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.'

Equipped with a approximately 300-megapixel wide-field camera developed by Texas Instruments, this telescope boasts high performance, capable of capturing an area about 100 times wider than the Hubble Space Telescope at the same resolution.

This capability plays a pivotal role in enabling astronomers to detect approximately 100,000 new exoplanets and directly capture celestial bodies similar to Jupiter in our solar system by fine-tuning micro-mirrors to block out the light of their host stars.