{"id":158516,"date":"2023-02-19T16:24:57","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T22:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/nasa-funds-disruptive-space-tech-to-detect-very-nearby-exoearths"},"modified":"2023-02-19T16:24:57","modified_gmt":"2023-02-19T22:24:57","slug":"nasa-funds-disruptive-space-tech-to-detect-very-nearby-exoearths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/nasa-funds-disruptive-space-tech-to-detect-very-nearby-exoearths","title":{"rendered":"NASA Funds Disruptive Space Tech To Detect Very Nearby ExoEarths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-funds-disruptive-space-tech-to-detect-very-nearby-exoearths2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A disruptive new planet-hunting technology, now under study as part of NASA\u2019s Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program, could literally detect and then look for biosignatures from every Earth 2.0 within a thirty-light-year radius of our solar system.<\/p>\n<p>Known as DICER (The Diffractive Interfero Coronagraph Exoplanet Resolver), the key to this NIAC study\u2019s revolutionary means of detecting these planets is that unlike conventional optical space telescopes \u2014 which use curved, highly polished mirrors to collect starlight \u2014 this mission would employ flat sets of what are known as diffraction gratings.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Who says you need a conventional telescope to find exoplanets? NASA has funded a \u2018Phase I\u2019 study for the development of a whole new means of detecting and then teasing spectra from very nearby exoplanetary earths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A disruptive new planet-hunting technology, now under study as part of NASA\u2019s Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program, could literally detect and then look for biosignatures from every Earth 2.0 within a thirty-light-year radius of our solar system. Known as DICER (The Diffractive Interfero Coronagraph Exoplanet Resolver), the key to this NIAC study\u2019s revolutionary means of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}