--- title: Shape-shifting mirrors on NASA’s new space telescope... description: NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, launching as early as next month, will carry the first space-based 'active coronagraph' — an instrument using two... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/shape-shifting-mirrors-on-nasa-s-new-space-telescope-could-unveil-jupiters-like-our-own-125qrpcdu twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Shape-shifting mirrors on NASA’s new space telescope could unveil Jupiters like our own | daily.dev og:description: NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, launching as early as next month, will carry the first space-based 'active coronagraph' — an instrument using two... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/shape-shifting-mirrors-on-nasa-s-new-space-telescope-could-unveil-jupiters-like-our-own-125qrpcdu og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/125qrpCdu.png og:image:alt: Shape-shifting mirrors on NASA’s new space telescope could unveil Jupiters like our own og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Shape-shifting mirrors on NASA’s new space telescope could unveil Jupiters like our own **[MIT Technology Review](https://daily.dev/sources/technologyreview)** · 8 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, launching as early as next month, will carry the first space-based 'active coronagraph' — an instrument using two deformable mirrors with 2,304 tiny actuators each to cancel out unwanted starlight via active wavefront control. This system is expected to improve exoplanet detection sensitivity by up to 1,000x compared to current space coronagraphs, potentially enabling direct imaging of true Jupiter analogues orbiting sun-like stars. The technology could also pave the way for NASA's proposed Habitable Worlds Observatory, which aims to photograph Earth-like planets. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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