A team led by the University of Colorado Boulder has been selected to build a tiny orbiting satellite to study the evaporating atmospheres of gigantic “hot Jupiters”—distant gaseous planets orbiting scorchingly close to their parent stars. LASP Planetary Scientist and CU Boulder Assistant Professor, Kevin France, tells us more about the upcoming Colorado Ultraviolet Transit Experiment, or CUTE, the next in a line of LASP-led CubeSat projects.

(Video credit: University of Colorado Boulder)

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