10th Edition

ISBN: 9780321902788

Author: Hugh D. Young, Philip W. Adams, Raymond Joseph Chastain

Publisher: PEARSON

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Chapter 26, Problem 56GP

Searching for planets around other stars. If an optical telescope focusing light of wavelength 550 nm had a perfectly ground mirror, what would have to be the minimum diameter of its mirror so that it could resolve a Jupiter-size planet around our nearest star, Alpha Centauri, which is about 4.3 light-years from earth? (Consult Appendix E.)

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