Henrietta’s New Spectrograph to Monitor Alien Space

Image of the Swope Telescope located at Carnegie Science’s Las Campanas Observatory in Chile. (Credit: Yuri Beletsky/Carnegie Science)

Finding life beyond our planetary system is more than measuring exoplanet sizes, as rocky, Earth-sized worlds may not host life as we know it. Although exoplanets can be shown directly by blocking the light of their star, these images are not spectacular and do not have the resolution to provide sufficient information about their habitation. … Read more