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LIFE townhall 2024
November 27, 2024
The LIFE All Hands Meeting 2024 was a dynamic gathering of researchers and collaborators, focused on advancing the goals of the LIFE initiative. Over two engaging sessions (November 21-22), participants shared updates, celebrated progress,…
Grant for LIFE optical design
November 20, 2024
Floris van der Tak (SRON) & Tim Lichtenberg (U Groningen) have obtained funding for technical and system work for the optics of LIFE. The project includes a detailed optical design for LIFE, comparing various array configurations, and…
LIFE XIV paper accepted: Finding terrestrial protoplanets in the galactic neighborhood
November 1, 2024
The fourtheenth paper of the LIFE series (Cesario et al. 2024) has recently been accepted in Astronomy and Astrophysics. In this paper, we explore the potential of the Large Interferometer for Exoplanets (LIFE) for finding terrestrial…
LIFE in the media
A telescope fleet designed to study nearby worlds
[Astronomy] LIFE would use multiple satellites flying in formation to separate the faint thermal glow of rocky planets from the overwhelming light of their host stars.