We’re still in the definition phase of the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), but it seems like every week a new research group comes out with a paper helping to contribute to what is shaping up to be one of the most important space telescopes of the 2040s. A new paper from a team of researchers led by Daniel Jaffe of the University of Texas at Austin contributes to this ongoing definition work by arguing that it’s time HWO adopted a high-resolution near-IR spectroscopy capability, - which soun

'High-Res' is the Secret to Finding Alien Life with the Next Great Space Telescope
Andy Tomaswick (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/andy-tomaswick)
