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Artist's concept of the Starshade

Artist's concept of the Starshade
Artist's concept of the Starshade An artist’s depiction of the fully-deployed Starshade spacecraft (left) next to the space telescope it supports. The two spacecraft must fly in almost perfect alignment to allow the telescope to stay in the shadow created by the Starshade. NASA / JPL-Caltech