Principal Investigator Ronald Remillard
Co-investigators Alan Levine , Anna Frebel
Project Website http://space-dev.mit.edu/research/opticalir-astronomy
The telescopes used by MIT's optical and IR astronomers are the direct descendants of Galileo's, but have almost a million times more light gathering power. And instead of using their eyes, they use huge arrays of detectors not unlike those in cell phones, but cooled to liquid nitrogen temperatures.