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Avi LoebSearching for City Lights on Exoplanets with NASA’s Habitable Worlds ObservatoryNASA’s future mission “The Habitable Worlds Observatory” was recommended for funding by the Decadal Survey in Astronomy and Astrophysics of…4d ago10
Avi LoebWhere Will Voyager Be in a Billion Years?Last month I asked my brilliant undergraduate student at Harvard, Shokhruz Kakharov: “Where will the Voyager spacecraft be in a billion…Jun 134
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