Starshade

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A form of coronagraph disk designed to prevent starlight from interfering with the observation of exoplanets

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"The Starshade is an immense, folding iris that has been proposed as a way to block light from distant stars. It would unfurl to a diameter of about 85 feet (26 meters) in space, about the size of a standard baseball diamond."

Etymology

From star + shade.

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