- Add a filter to only display planets with a habitability probability input, e.g., only those with a 3-5% chance of being habitable.
- Add background music and sound effects for transitions?
From here on, this is an easy-to-understand summary of all the contents in the Details section of the HWO topic.
Your challenge is to develop an app that enables users to visualize the observational paths across our galaxy to the known exoplanets in the solar neighborhood as a function of their potential for characterization by HWO.
- Exoplanets are primarily discovered using indirect methods.
- HWO aims to directly image exoplanets and broaden the knowledge of Earth-like bodies.
- When planning the HWO mission, it is crucial to understand how the parameters of the telescope affect the parameters of observable planets.
- One method to achieve this is to visualize currently known exoplanets and observe what is visible depending on the telescope's parameters. Specifically, two aspects can be considered:
- (1) The farther the exoplanetary system is, the fainter the central star, while the distance between the central star and the planet decreases.
- (2) The larger the telescope's aperture, the better its ability to separate the central star from the exoplanet.
- Create an app that visualizes known exoplanets considering their likelihood of being observable by HWO.
- Show which exoplanets are currently visible and which new exoplanets become detectable when changing one or more telescope parameters.
- Demonstrate the potential performance of HWO to telescope stakeholders.
- Add the following features:
- (1) Show telescope observations based on parameters.
- (2) Display changes when specific parameters are altered.
- (3) Group exoplanet clusters based on observational difficulty, considering factors like orbits around stars and stellar classifications.
- (4) Include a feature that categorizes stars into easily observable and challenging observable categories for user understanding.
- Target Audience: Various NASA stakeholders, e.g., citizens, politicians, managers.
- Add the following features:
- (1) Show how changing telescope or equipment parameters affects observational results.
- (2) Distinguish 'similarities between stars' and 'observability by HWO' based on exoplanet or central star parameters, visually represented in color on the cosmic display.
- (3) Make it user-interactive: Allow users to adjust multiple parameters during observations.