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27 exoplanet targets for the world's first private space telescope

The Lazuli Space Telescope will be the first private space telescope.

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The Lazuli Space Telescope will be the first private space telescope.

The short version

  • It's the brainchild of Eric Schmidt, Google's former CEO.
  • It will have a 3-meter mirror (9.8 feet), larger than Hubble's 2.4-meter mirror (7.9 feet), and will be launched by 2029.
  • This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies .

What happened

Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: The Lazuli Space Telescope will be the first private space telescope. Lazuli will have three instruments: a wide-field optical imager, an integral field spectrograph and the ExtraSolar Coronagraph (ESC).

Why it matters

New research proposes a list of targets for the ESC.

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