TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) -- A Florida State physicist is helping NASA with a new space telescope.
Eric Hsiao, an assistant professor of physics, is part of a team that's working on the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), which is scheduled to launch in the mid 2020s.
It'll be used to observe supernovas and for better understanding dark energy.
Officials say the telescope will have a field of view 100 times bigger than the Hubble telescope, and will help scientists answer some of the most fundamental questions about our universe.
According to a release, the telescope will be so versatile that it is expected to house several dark energy experiments, as well as a survey of planets beyond our solar system. It also will be equipped with a variety of instruments, including one called a coronagraph, which is designed to block the glare of individual stars and thus allow scientists to directly image planets in other solar systems.
