NASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST)

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NASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), illustrated here, will carry a Wide Field Instrument to capture Hubble-quality images covering large swaths of sky, enabling cosmic evolution studies. Its Coronagraph Instrument will directly image exoplanets and study their atmospheres.

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Credits: NASA/GSFC/Conceptual Image Lab

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