Absolutely spectacular results from Soummer, Por and their team using the “High-contrast imager for complex aperture telescopes (HiCAT)" testbed, showing coronagraphs with closed loop mirror control making dark holes down to 1e-8 contrast, crucial for terrestrial exoplanet imaging. 🔭🪐 #astrodon

An image of an artifical star, where diffraction has been suppressed in a dark D shaped region to the right of the star. The light in the dark hole is a hundred million times fainter than the star.
Matthew Kenworthy @kenworthy