How to Use coronagraph in a Sentence
coronagraph
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But Ribas says a coronagraph is the most certain way to see this world.
—Loren Grush, The Verge, 14 Nov. 2018
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The center of the image contains a coronagraph which blocks the bright light of the central star.
—Brett Molina, USA TODAY, 2 July 2018
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To get the picture of the planet, the astronomers used an instrument to block out the light from the star, known as a coronagraph.
—Loren Grush, The Verge, 2 July 2018
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To avoid being dazzled by the bright disk of Earth, the telescope would need a mask, known as a coronagraph, to block it out.
—Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 6 Aug. 2019
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The star is dark due to a coronagraph, technology that allows the telescope to mask the light of the star.
—Sarah Gray, Fortune, 5 July 2018
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To see the protoplanetary ring, astronomers use a tool called a coronagraph to block the light of the star.
—Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 24 Feb. 2017
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The coronagraph includes a disk to block out most of the light to look at what is going on in the sun’s outer atmosphere.
—Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2020
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The mission’s coronagraph would enable these detections by removing all the starlight in the center of the field of view of the telescope.
—Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2023
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The planet stands clearly out, visible as a bright point to the right of the centre of the image, which is blacked out by the coronagraph mask used to block the blinding light of the central star.
—Sarah Gray, Fortune, 5 July 2018
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The instruments use a coronagraph to block out the starlight that would obscure the planet’s view otherwise.
—Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 1 Sep. 2022
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But a coronagraph can’t see as much as a telescope observing an eclipse can.
—Scott Dance, baltimoresun.com, 18 Aug. 2017
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Unlike a coronagraph, a star shade separates the two before the light enters the telescope.
—Chris Wright, Wired, 4 Jan. 2022
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The first is a coronagraph, or a camera with an internal occulter to block the direct light of the star, allowing the light from the planet to enter the instrument.
—Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 18 Apr. 2018
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So Widemann and his colleagues built their own coronagraphs.
—Dave Mosher, Popular Mechanics, 4 June 2012
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And like the coronagraph, the starshade is not a fully mature technology yet.
—Loren Grush, The Verge, 8 Sep. 2018
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The space telescope could potentially study large planets using a special instrument known as a coronagraph, which helps to block out the light of stars.
—Loren Grush, The Verge, 14 Nov. 2018
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For those scenarios, NIRCam comes equipped with a coronagraph, which is essentially a glass plate with a black dot to obscure the unwanted light.
—Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 26 Jan. 2023
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But a separate spacecraft is a much more complex and unwieldy starlight-suppression solution than a coronagraph and thus is unlikely to be part of HWO from the get-go.
—Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 6 Dec. 2023
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Lately another controversial element has been added to the mission, a coronagraph, which could be used to block the light from a star so that faint planets near them can be discerned.
—Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2018
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For now, the AURA team is setting its sights on an internal coronagraph as the higher priority.
—Korey Haynes, Discover Magazine, 13 June 2017
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The first uses a device known as a coronagraph, which sits inside the telescope and carefully obscures light from the star while letting through light immediately around it.
—Korey Haynes, Discover Magazine, 13 June 2017
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The telescope would be designed to reduce scattered light and have a coronagraph and starshade to allow direct imaging of Earth-sized exoplanets.
—Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 1 Nov. 2017
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New technology will enable the coronagraph to block multiple stars at the same time, needed to hunt for exoplanets in star systems that, unlike our own, have two stars or more.
—Umar Farooq, Science | AAAS, 4 Mar. 2020
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Its advanced coronagraph succeeded at blocking out a majority of the host star’s light.
—Daniel Leonard, Scientific American, 22 Sep. 2022
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Its proposed coronagraph will block the light coming from stars, which will be critical in helping astronomers obtain imagery of Earth-like exoplanets.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2021
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Webb’s coronagraph will block a star’s light, revealing its orbiting planets.
—Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 7 June 2021
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There were, of course, some unexpected blips — like the discovery of scattered light impacting the telescope’s coronagraph instrument.
—Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 12 July 2022
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But like other premier telescopes, DAG will also have a coronagraph, an instrument that masks bright stars to remove their glare so that dim planets orbiting them can be imaged directly.
—Umar Farooq, Science | AAAS, 4 Mar. 2020
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For example, scientists using the telescope’s coronagraph to create an artificial eclipse that blocks out the sun will seek to better understand the fundamental physics behind solar eruptive events.
—Discover Magazine, 15 Aug. 2017
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This picture represents part of a coronagraph mask manufacturing process.
—Discover Magazine, 15 May 2013
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