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NASA’s Pandora telescope will study stars in detail to learn about the exoplanets orbiting them

  • Written by Daniel Apai, Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Astronomy and Planetary Sciences, University of Arizona
NASA’s Pandora telescope will study stars in detail to learn about the exoplanets orbiting themA new NASA mission will study exoplanets around distant stars. European Space Agency, CC BY-SA

On Jan. 11, 2026, I watched anxiously at the tightly controlled Vandenberg Space Force Base in California as an awe-inspiring SpaceXFalcon 9 rocket carriedNASA’s new exoplanet telescope, Pandora, into orbit.

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