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NASA Spaceline Current Awareness List #1,166 12 September 2025 (Space Life Science Research Results)
The abstract in PubMed or at the publisher’s site is linked when available and will open in a new window. Rithidech K, Mohallem R, Aryal UK, Peanlikhit T, Crucian B.Effects
Webb Looks at Earth-Sized, Habitable-Zone Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 e
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Toward Alternative Earths’ Habitability of Solar System Bodies at Earth’s Orbit
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How Interstellar Objects Similar To 3I/ATLAS Could Jump-Start Planet Formation Around Infant Stars
Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. Could similar objects be the seeds of new planets around young stars? Image credit: NASA/ESA/David Jewitt (UCLA). Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale
Helicopter Training for Artemis Missions
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The moon and Venus visit the 'Heart of the Lion' this week. Here's how to see it
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Spectral fits to TRAPPIST-1 e’s stellar-contamination-corrected transmission spectrum. Top: bestfitting forward models for three different partial pressures of N2 and CH4 (solid, dotted, and dashed colored lines) compared to a
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White-light TRAPPIST-1 e JWST/NIRSpec PRISM transit light curves. (Top) Datapoints of the transit event (grey; binned at a cadence of 14-seconds) along with the best-fit transit plus systematics model (black;
NASA/Kim Shiflett The Artemis II crew (from front left to back right) – pilot Victor Glover, commander Reid Wiseman, mission specialist Jeremy Hansen of CSA (Canadian Space Agency), and mission
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