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Harry Baker

NASA will put a 'new star' in the sky by the end of the decade in 1st-of-its-kind mission

Stars spinning around an observatory in the night sky.

A first-of-its-kind NASA mission aims to put a new "star" in the sky by the end of the decade to help solve a wide range of the universe's biggest mysteries, scientists have announced. 

The Landolt NASA Space Mission aims to send an artificial star satellite into orbit around Earth by "early 2029," Peter Plavchan, an astronomer at George Mason University in Virginia and the Landolt mission's principal investigator, told Live Science in an email. 

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