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Exozodiacal light presents challenge for direct imaging of exo-Earths

6 November 2014 Astronomy Now

An international team of astronomers has discovered exozodiacal light close to the habitable zones around nine nearby stars using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer.