The things NASA comes up with just retain getting more and more futuristic. NASA’s Exoplanet exploration program (ExEP) wants to place something really far-out in the sky. Michael Bottom and Thibualt Filnois,engineers at the space agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, CA, and are creating a starshade that looks like an alien sunflower which unfurls its “petals” in space.
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