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Cereal-box-sized NASA spacecraft sends first UV images of planet-host stars

NASA has received the first images from a tiny spacecraft designed to study the stars that host distant planets. The mission, called the Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat, or SPARCS, will track ...

NASA's tiny spacecraft sends first exoplanet images

With the first images from the spacecraft now in hand, the team behind NASA's Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat, or SPARCS, is ready to begin charting the energetic lives of the galaxy's most ...