🌱 Patch AM: How Greenbelt scientists are helping hunt for habitable worlds beyond Earth

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In today's newsletter:

• How Greenbelt scientists are helping hunt for habitable worlds beyond Earth

Also on today's calendar: Avoiding Seasonal Viruses and 6 more events.

Today's riddle: I am on a seafood diet. 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Sunday: Increasingly windy, with a high of 48 and low of 28 degrees.
• Monday: Breezy in the morning, temps: high: 46, low: 27.
• Tuesday: Sunny; breezy in the p.m., with a high of 51 and low of 36 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Launch Of Pandora Satellite And CubeSats To Explore Exoplanets (astrobiology.com) — NASA’s Pandora mission is being led from Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, tying our community directly to a new effort to study the atmospheres of distant exoplanets. Launching today with two companion CubeSats, Pandora will spend a year closely observing at least 20 worlds beyond our solar system, helping scientists worldwide better interpret signs of potentially habitable planets.
   

📸 Around Greenbelt

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Greenbelt

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Tuesday January 13

• English Conversation Club
  Bladensburg Branch Library Bladensburg - Bladensburg Study Room 3
  1:00 pm

Wednesday January 14

• Ready 2 Read Storytime: Ages 35
  Greenbelt Branch Library Greenbelt - Program Room
  12:15 pm
• Needlework Social
  Bladensburg Branch Library Bladensburg - Bladensburg Large Meeting Room
  5:30 pm

Thursday January 15

• Pins and Needles
  New Carrollton Branch Library New Carrollton - Large meeting room 1
  10:00 am
• Ready 2 Read Storytime: Ages 02
  Greenbelt Branch Library Greenbelt - Program Room
  10:15 am
• Get Active: Ride and Read
  Greenbelt Branch Library Greenbelt - Auditorium
  11:00 am

Friday January 16

• Ready 2 Read Storytime: Ages 23
  Greenbelt Branch Library Greenbelt - Program Room
  11:15 am

Saturday January 17

• Dance Party
  Greenbelt Branch Library Greenbelt - Auditorium
  10:30 am

Saturday January 24

• Avoiding Seasonal Viruses
  Bladensburg Branch Library, PGCMLS , 4820 Annapolis Rd , Bladensburg
  3:00 pm

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🗓 Events Nearby

Sunday January 11

• Hyattsville Irish Session
  Maryland Meadworks , 4700 Rhode Island Ave Suite Bee , Hyattsville
  11:00 am
• Oldies But Goodies DJ Day Party Brunch
  HOUSE OF SOUL RESTAURANT and BAR , 9430 Annapolis Rd , Lanham
  12:00 pm
• Girl Scout Troop 23031
  City of College Park, Maryland Calendar , 4601 Calvert Road , College Park
  2:30 pm
• Classical House Concert/Potluck Dinner
  Washington Musica Viva , 7502 Flower Ave , Takoma Park
  3:00 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Cipriani & Werner posted a job opening for Legal Secretary in Greenbelt. Apply here.
• SAS Retail Services posted a job opening for Travel Retail Sales Merchandiser in College Park. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Greenbelt here.

🗞 Nearby News

College Park

• Hoyer departure opens scramble for his seat among Democrats long waiting in the wings (newsfromthestates.com)
• Unreleased Report on Maryland President's Alleged Plagiarism May Have Cost $600K (insidehighered.com)
• Wonder opens 10th DC-area location as traditional food halls falter (wtop.com)

Beltsville

• NextDAY Cabinets Beltsville Showroom Partners with Kith Kitchen to Expand Bathroom Vanities Selection (beaconjournal.com)

Silver Spring

Ok Greenbelt! So now you're in the loop about what's happening today. Thanks for reading, and see you in your inbox next time! Oh -- and if you like what you're reading, invite a friend to Patch AM!

-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: I see food and I eat it.
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