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The Plan to Send Tiny Probes to the Stars | A cadre of researchers are now working to make interstellar travel a reality, at least to our nearest neighbors. They are coalescing around an approach that could lead to closeup images of a star and an exoplanet just 25 years after mission launch.


A new approach to interstellar travel could bring us close-up images of exoplanets in just 25 years.

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