Trump budget would shutter GoreSat - delivering a blow to exoplanet research

Trump budget would shutter GoreSat - delivering a blow to exoplanet research

Though astronomers have indirectly detected thousands of exoplanets, they are just starting to get fuzzy pictures of the orbs themselves. But what can they learn from just a few pixels of light? It turns out that the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), a space-weather satellite with a controversial past, is answering those questions right now, says Stephen Kane, an exoplanet scientist at San Francisco State University in California.

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