Sentences with phrase «around nearby bright stars»
TESS is a NASA mission scheduled for launch in 2017, while PLATO is to be launched in 2024 by the European Space Agency; both will search for transiting terrestrial planets around nearby bright stars.
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Following a novel, looping path that gives it an unobstructed view, the orbiting TESS will scan the sky for planets around nearby bright stars.
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Low - Hanging Fruit The trick to keeping costs down is focusing on planets around relatively bright, nearby stars — the easiest ones to detect.
NASA's newest satellite, TESS (the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), scheduled for launch on April 16, 2018, will extend the hunt for small, rocky planets around nearby, bright stars.
The team also mapped out all the positions of the brightest nearby cluster stars and was able to detect very small motions as the stars slowly revolved around each other.
Our overall detection rate is 18 %, including four new detections, among which are... ▽ More The HOSTS (Hunt for Observable Signatures of Terrestrial Systems) survey searches for dust near the habitable zones (HZs) around nearby, bright main sequence stars.
The TESS satellite, which will launch in 2017, will use four cameras to search for exoplanets around bright nearby stars.
Abstract: The HOSTS (Hunt for Observable Signatures of Terrestrial Systems) survey searches for dust near the habitable zones (HZs) around nearby, bright main sequence stars.