planets
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The Coronagraph Instrument will demonstrate technology that could eventually be used by future missions such as NASA's Habitable Worlds Observatory concept to directly photograph planets resembling Earth.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
The findings suggest that rocky planets, and possibly worlds with some of the ingredients associated with habitability, may have become possible much earlier in cosmic history than scientists previously expected.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
The Roman telescope is also expected to locate more planets beyond our solar system, some of which could hold life like our own.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
Once fully operational, the observatory is expected to vastly expand scientists’ inventory of planets outside our solar system, increasing it from about 6,300 planets to more than 100,000.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
In fact, Galileo had discovered moons circling Jupiter, not planets circling a distant star.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
