MISSION NEWS AS OF MONDAY 5 FEBRUARY 2018

+ ESA CREATES QUIETEST PLACE IN SPACE
The LISA Pathfinder mission already outperformed itself in the first week of operations, and now the final report card is in, showing that it even surpassed some of the requirements for its next-generation successor.
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+ HUBBLE DELIVERS FIRST INSIGHT INTO ATMOSPHERES OF POTENTIALLY HABITABLE PLANETS ORBITING TRAPPIST-1 [HEIC1802]
An international team of astronomers has used the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to look for atmospheres around four Earth-sized planets orbiting within or near TRAPPIST-1's habitable zone. The new results further support the terrestrial and potentially habitable nature of three of the studied planets.
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+ STELLAR WINDS BEHAVING UNEXPECTEDLY
ESA's XMM-Newton has spotted surprising changes in the powerful streams of gas from two massive stars, suggesting that colliding stellar winds don't behave as expected.
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