Episode 133: The Toliman Space Telescope – an update

About this episode

This episode provides an update on the Toliman Space Telescope, a spacecraft designed to search for Earth-like planets in the Alpha Centauri star system.

The Toliman Space Telescope. A small, novel spacecraft looking for Earth-like planets in our nearest neighbour star system, Alpha Centauri.

People in this episode

Host: Gurbir Singh

Topics covered

• space exploration
• telescope technology
• exoplanets
• Alpha Centauri
• Earth-like planets

Keywords

• Toliman Space Telescope
• Alpha Centauri
• Earth-like planets
• spacecraft
• exoplanet discovery

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Toliman Space Telescope

Places: Alpha Centauri

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