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Exploring extreme exoplanets

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The Colorado Ultraviolet Transit Experiment CubeSat mission aims to observe atmospheric escape from a dozen or more exoplanets by monitoring them in the near-ultraviolet, explains Principal Investigator Kevin France.

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Fig. 1: The CUTE science instrument.

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France, K. Exploring extreme exoplanets. Nat Astron 4, 1112 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-020-01239-2

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