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This week Jay Shaffer and Mike Lewinski interview astronomers Prof. Peter Wheatley, Daniel Bayliss , and Toby Rodel from the Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS) about their work detecting exoplanets and the future of astronomical imaging technology. Also they discuss a potential solar storm and a planetary conjunction of Venus and Jupiter, as well as the Perseid meteor shower peak. The main news segments cover a plan by the Trump administration to cancel two NASA carbon monitoring missions (OCO2 and OCO3) and the potential discovery of a Saturn-mass exoplanet orbiting Alpha Centauri A by the James Webb Space Telescope.
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