Sentences with phrase «nearby bright stars»
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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TESS — a spacecraft roughly the size of a washing machine — will search nearby bright stars for signs of planets.
Opting for a mission with a century timescale also opens possibilities for exploring other nearby bright stars, Hippke says.
TESS will zero in on exoplanets transiting nearby bright stars — the easiest to study.
But light from nearby bright stars can drown out dimmer galaxies like the 72 new ones, none of which contain stars Hubble can see.
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.
On 16 April, the agency plans to launch the US$ 337 - million Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), which will scrutinize 200,000 nearby bright stars for signs of orbiting planets.
The craft will measure the sizes of known planets — from those a little bigger than Earth to ones that are roughly Neptune - sized — orbiting nearby bright stars.
But the remarkably still air on Mount Wilson — the same climatic condition that keeps LA choked in smog — promises some of the world's sharpest images of the Sun, nearby bright stars, and any planets found orbiting them.