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Hiding in the Sunshine: The Search for Other Earths


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Ilya Poberezhskiy, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Ilya Poberezhskiy of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, holds a "shaped pupil" mask in his hand as he explains how it suppresses star light to reveal light from a planet that is up to a billion times fainter.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

We humans might not be the only ones to ponder our place in the universe.

From Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA
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