What is a hypertelescope?

The so -called hypertelescope is an optical interferometric field or a set of binoculars arranged in the shape of a large lens shape that cooperates on solving astronomical images at a much higher angular resolution than it could be with every telescope. In fact, such a hypertelashop can allow the angular resolution approaching the distinction that the telescope should be if its entire lens was as large as the distance over the field. It can be very significant for a field with size in kilometers or megameters. However, angular resolution is not the only meaningful quality of binoculars, causing most astronomers to see a hypertelashop as a specialized tool.

Hypertelescope uses a technique called aperture synthesis to simulate a giant telescope with a number of smaller telescopes. The techniques used to implement hyperteleskop and understanding their data are interferometric techniques, measuring techniques that combine two or more data to create a brighter imageku. The entire field is called astronomical optical interferometry . Even a kilometer wide hypertelescopes can circumvent many problems with unique earth telescopes. The distance between the two farthest binoculars is called baseline , which began around a few meters or legs and now moves up to about a kilometer (0.62 million). Larger iterations of hypertelescope are now planned or in production, including a space hypertelashop with its parts held solar sails.

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pioneer of the French Hypertelescope Antoine Labeyrie imagined that he uses the Hypertelescope field to a picture of nearby exoplanets or planets in foreign solar systems. Labeyria and Colleague showed how technologically feasible hypertelescop could be used to detect surface elements such as continents, seasons and climate in the world, up to 10 light -years. That could bevery useful for determining the presence or absence of microbial life. In the future, even greater hypertelestopes could be used to display extremely small or weak objects such as neutron stars.