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2 August 2023

Towards Starlight Suppression for the Habitable Worlds Observatory Workshop

August 8, 2023 – August 10, 2023 400 S. Wilson Ave. Pasadena, CA 91106

Remote participation is available

NASA has begun planning for an ambitious program to develop the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) — the first in a panchromatic suite of Great Observatories recommended by the Astro2020 Decadal Survey. The high-level science goals of the mission are to directly image ~25 potentially Earth-like planets and spectroscopically characterize them for signs of life, as well as enable transformative general astrophysics. The starlight suppression capability of HWO will require significant performance advances both in coronagraphy and telescope stability.

To establish a common foundation in starlight suppression and ultra-stable telescope technologies, NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration Program is holding this hybrid workshop, August 8–10, 2023.

https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/exep/events/457/towards-starlight-suppression-for-the-habitable-worlds-observatory-workshop/