SpaceX Launches New NASA Telescope to Help JWST Study Exoplanets

Last week a University of Arizona astronomy professor "watched anxiouslyas an awe-inspiring SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried NASA's new exoplanet telescope, Pandora, into orbit." In 2018 NASA had approached Daniel Apai to help build the telescope, which he says will "shatter a barrier - to understand and remove a source of noise in the data - that limits our ability to study small exoplanets in detail and search for life on them." Astronomers have a trick to study exoplanet atm...