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The Sun’s Great Galactic Road Trip, China’s Moon Museum & a Pi Day Planet

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Our sun's ancient migration across the galaxy may be the key reason Earth became a calm, habitable world.
This episode of Astronomy Daily celebrates Pi Day with news on the sun's galactic migration, China's candidate moon landing site, Russia's planned return to Venus, NASA's Dragonfly drone for Titan, China's Mars sample return mission, and a fun exoplanet with a 3.14-day year.

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A Pi Day exoplanet frames a brisk tour of solar migration, China's lunar plans, Venus, Titan, and Mars.

A Pi Day coincidence gives this episode a clean organizing spark: an exoplanet with a 3.14-day year, set against questions about the Sun's migration, China's lunar plans, Venus, Titan, and Mars.

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You want a 3.14-day exoplanet, a Venus balloon, and a space-news detour with unusually good mileage.

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