TESS will provide exoplanet targets for years to come

TESS will provide exoplanet targets for years to come Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 10, 2016 - NASA's search for planets outside of our solar system has mostly involved very distant, faint stars. NASA's upcoming Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), by contrast, will look at the brightest stars in our solar neighborhood. After TESS launches, it will quickly start discovering new exoplanets that ground-based observatories, the Hubble Space Telescope and, later, the James Webb ... more

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