The Lazuli Space Telescope will be the first private space telescope. It's the scientific child of Eric Schmidt, Google's former CEO. It will have a 3-meter mirror, larger than the Hubble's 2.4 meter mirror, and will be launched by 2029.

Lazuli will have three instruments: a wide-field optical imager, an integral field spectrograph, and the ExtraSolar Coronagraph (ESC).

New research proposes a list of targets for the ESC. It's titled " The first selection of optimal targets for the Lazuli ExtraSolar Coronagraph’s reflected starlight exoplanet campaign ," and is available at arxiv.org.…