University of Colorado's Professor Webster Cash has been funded by Nasa to continue the development of this flower-shaped "occulter," used with a powerful telescope trailing thousands of miles behind, which will make it easier to spot extra-solar planets, that is, planets that orbit stars other than our very own Sun.
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