A coronagraph is a telescopic attachment designed to block out the direct light from a star so that nearby objects ? which otherwise would be hidden in the star's bright glare ? can be resolved. Most coronagraphs are intended to view the corona of the Sun, but a new class of conceptually similar instruments (called stellar coronagraphs to distinguish them from solar coronagraphs) are being used to find extrasolar planets around nearby stars.
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