Over the past few years, it’s gone from a proposal to a relatively fleshed-out plan for how and what the next Great Observatory should do—in this case, look at and characterize potentially habitable exoplanets. Amendment 68: New Opportunity: D.8 Habitable Worlds Observatory Precursor Science Investigations The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is a large-aperture ultraviolet/visible/near-infrared observatory concept recommended by the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine decadal survey, “Pathways to Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 2020s” (Astro2020).
The HWO mission concept would be the first space mission designed specifically to search for life outside our solar system and […] ASA Science.
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