Telescope for Habitable Exoplanets and Interstellar/Intergalactic Astronomy (THEIA) is a NASA-proposed 4-metre optical/ultraviolet space telescope that would succeed the Hubble Space Telescope and complement the infrared-James Webb Space Telescope. THEIA would use a 40-metre occulter to block starlight so as to directly image exoplanets.

It was proposed with three main instruments and an occulter:[1]

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  1. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-11-27. Retrieved 2015-10-30.((cite web)): CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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