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![A collage of pet photos — including cats, dogs, birds, and rabbits — overlaid on Earth with laser links between Earth and a communications terminal on the International Space Station.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/news/image/2024-06/pet-article-image-1-1.png?itok=jud1lY61)
![A laser communications terminal approximately the size of a standard refrigerator sits in a cleanroom.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/news/image/2023-12/ILLUMA-T.jpeg?itok=n8vn1i8Y)
![a photo of a sensor](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/news/image/2023-08/calorimeter-1.png?h=49bd0724&itok=huC4HBUe)
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August 30, 2023
![Four colored images show structural changes within Hurricane Adrian as the storm intensified.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/news/image/2023-07/firstlightmulti_tropics_2023180_lrg.jpg?itok=h1ILgHy-)
![Three people examine an optical communications payload at Kennedy Space Center.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/news/image/2023-06/o2o_at_ksc_5.jpg?itok=q6gNk4X4)
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June 13, 2023
![a technician loads a reticle (a kind of optical blueprint) into the 193-nm lithography tool used in the sensor production process.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/news/image/2022-08/low-noise4png.png.jpeg?h=4b1661d7&itok=es_s43nh)
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August 17, 2022
![an image from a satellite taken of earth; antarctica at the bottom is colored blue, and color ranges through yellow, orange, and red up near the equator](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/news/image/2021-09/ch12_tropics_sv1_8aug2021_asc_night_0.png?h=0e534dcc&itok=u-CIu-cz)
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September 13, 2021
![Illustration of NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) at work. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/news/image/2020-08/lsp_tess_image.jpg?itok=CiKHsl8o)
![NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has found three confirmed exoplanets in the data from the space telescope’s four cameras. Photo: NASA/MIT/TESS](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/news/image/2019-02/1542_TESS_planets.jpg?itok=_jCgk6j2)
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February 13, 2019
![Captured image of the Large Magellanic Cloud and bright star R.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/news/image/2018-09/tess_first_light-tb.jpg?h=da9f67e7&itok=S6DBaom0)
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September 17, 2018