New Polarized Light Detector Could Reveal ET | Video

Wednesday, June 4, 2014 - 05:31 in Astronomy & Space

ESO's Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch instrument (SPHERE) can pick up the faint polarized light from distant exoplanets revealing their atmospheres’ composition, which may contain biomarkers.

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