A starshade is nothing more than a material structure with a hole in the middle. It can be placed in front of a telescope to allow it to focus on its target without being blinded by the light of the ...
John Mather, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, is designing the first family of ISEE’s (Inflatable Starshade for Earthlike Exoplanets) with sizes from 35 to 100 meters in diameter. A starshade would ...