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Byline: Erin Philipson

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NASA/Provided Artistic rendering of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, currently under development by NASA, which will be used in the search for distant planets beyond our solar system.
Astronomy

‘Planet confusion’ could slow Earth-like exoplanet exploration

Cornell Chronicle

A new Cornell study finds that next-generation telescopes used to see exoplanets could confuse Earth-like planets with other types of planets in the same solar system.

A "C" shaped white plume of gas forming a star, with other stars around it.
Credit: ESA/NASA A small young stellar object in the constellation of Perseus.
Astronomy

Students’ satellite mission explores earliest universe

Cornell Chronicle

This new program provides undergraduates, graduate students and postdoctoral researchers with hands-on experience in developing innovative small spacecraft missions in high-priority areas of space science.