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NASA's SPARCS CubeSat — a spacecraft roughly the size of a cereal box — has returned its first ultraviolet images from orbit, marking a milestone in miniaturized space science. Launched alongside two other small missions aboard a SpaceX rideshare flight in January 2026, SPARCS will spend a year monitoring flare activity on M-dwarf stars to determine whether their planets could support life, demonstrating that transformative astrophysics no longer requires billion-dollar flagship telescopes.