Latest Space Breaking News: Bringing the digital revolution to direct exoplanet imaging with LCD technology
Link:
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-digital-revolution-exoplanet-imaging-lcd.html
Summary: An instrument is set to improve the detection and direct imaging of planets outside our solar system by harnessing the power of liquid crystals. The Programmable Liquid-crystal Active Coronagraphic Imager for the DAG telescope (PLACID) was installed earlier this year at the 4m-diameter telescope of the newly built Eastern Anatolian Observatory (DAG) observatory in Eastern Turkey. Now in the integration and validation phase, the first on-sky observations of PLACID are expected in the first quarter of 2026.