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  • noun Plural form of starshade.

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  • Though first conceived by Princeton University astronomers Lyman Spitzer and Robert Danielson in 1962, planet-imaging starshades have only recently come into vogue, largely due to a proposal by University of Colorado astronomer Webster Cash.

    SEEDMAGAZINE.COM 2009

  • "But right now, starshades are the only identified approach that could possibly lead to a spectrum of an Earth-like exoplanet in the next 10 years."

    SEEDMAGAZINE.COM 2009

  • "But right now, starshades are the only identified approach that could possibly lead to a spectrum of an Earth-like exoplanet in the next 10 years."

    SEEDMAGAZINE.COM 2009

  • Though first conceived by Princeton University astronomers Lyman Spitzer and Robert Danielson in 1962, planet-imaging starshades have only recently come into vogue, largely due to a proposal by University of Colorado astronomer Webster Cash.

    SEEDMAGAZINE.COM 2009

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