While SCExAO is still being integrated, HiCIAO is already operational and delivering some cool science data. The
Daily Mail online shows a picture of the planetary candidates orbiting the G-star (i.e. Sun-like star)
GJ 758 that was imaged during a HiCIAO engineering run in August 2009 at the Subaru Telescope.
SCExAO will allow to probe the innermost part of such planetary systems... and maybe uncover new planets in the habitable zone of nearby stars like GJ 758.
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