Studying Other Worlds with the Help of a Starshade

Studying Other Worlds with the Help of a Starshade This animation shows the prototype starshade, a giant structure designed to block the glare of stars so that future space telescopes can take pictures of planets. More info here: http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/video/15

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Robot Astronomy Destroyer of Worlds NASA JPL Caltech

http://www.FunToWatch.TV Robot IR-2 (Ed Wasser) meets The Physician (Wil Wheaton), an intergalactic buttinsky in a small blue box spaceship. Together, they work to escape "The Destroyer of Worlds," a binary star system that is destroying its inner planets. With Brigitte Dale.
Video Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech

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