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  NASA's Perseverance, China's Tianwen-1 and UAE's Hope arrive at Mars this month

  CNET - Jackson Ryan

  February is Mars month. Three spacecraft launched in July 2020 will make it to the red planet within days.

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  The 7 alien planets orbiting TRAPPIST-1 are like peas in a pod

  space.com - Samantha Mathewson

  The densities of the seven exoplanets vary by no more than 3%. The seven rocky planets orbiting the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 have remarkably similar …

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  Satellites orbiting Earth are increasing like crazy — how do we prevent them from crashing?

  TNW - The Conversation

  In recent years, satellites have become smaller, cheaper, and easier to make with commercial off the shelf parts. Some even weigh as little as one gram. This means more people can afford to send them into orbit. Now, satellite operators have started launching mega-constellations – groups of …

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  Newly Discovered Cloudless “Hot Jupiter” Is Unlike Any Known Exoplanet

  freethink.com - Kristin Houser

  Not counting the eight in our own solar system, astronomers have confirmed the existence of more than 4,000 planets in the universe — and now, …

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  Teen Interning at NASA Discovers Gorgeous New Planet on His Third Day on the Job

  My Modern Met - Madeleine Muzdakis

  During the summer of 2019, a 17-year-old high school student named Wolf Cukier arrived at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center ready for a summer of learning at their new prestigious, coveted internship. He was put in charge of examining data collected by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite …