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That's awesome! Are the multiple CCDs because you're taking photos in separate colors or something?


Good question. No, these will essentially be black-white "photos". The amount of light is measured. The reason for so many CCDs is so that the field of view would be as large as possible. A larger field of view enables to look at more stars at once. Given that we will be locked into looking at one spot for a whole year, it ups our chances of spotting something cool if we maximise the number of stars we are looking at.

However they won't be photos of planets really. It will be countless photos of the same stars over and over again, it's just that sometimes they will be slightly less bright than other times. Directly imaging exoplanets is incredibly difficult, but humans have managed it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_directly_imaged_exopla...




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