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Image credit: Conceptual design for a rectangular space telescope, based on the Diffractive Interfero Coronagraph Exoplanet Resolver (DICER) — an infrared space observatory — and the James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: Leif Svardi/Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Circle vs. Rectangle: Searching for 'Earth 2.0' may be easier with new telescope shape

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Engineers propose changing the way we observe planets outside our solar system to increase resolution in order to identify conditions on small planets, in particular to find Earth-like ones.
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