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A real-life deluminator for spotting exoplanets by reflected starlight

  • Written by Supriya Chakrabarti, Professor of Physics, University of Massachusetts Lowell
An artist's conception of WASP-18b, a giant exoplanet that orbits very close to its star.X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/I.Pillitteri et al; Optical: DSS

Perhaps you remember the opening scene of “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” that took place on Privet Drive. A bearded man pulled a mysterious device, called a deluminator, from his...

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