PetaPixel A Tiny Camera In a Cereal Box-Sized Space Telescope Is Searching for Habitable Planets


Close-up of an electronic sensor chip (left) and a star field image with a labeled star HD 71262 circled in white on a blue background (right).

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) built an ultraviolet camera for NASA's teeny-tiny SPARCS space telescope, which is about the size of a cereal box. The camera is searching the Milky Way Galaxy for habitable planets.

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