Sentences with phrase «nearby exoplanets which»
Our goal is to search nearby exoplanets which have been determined to be in the habitable zone of their host star.
https://www.planets.life/ Not exact matches
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.
We only have limited resources and technology available to us and currently looking at nearby red dwarfs is a good opportunity to find exoplanets which we can hopefully start to characterise in the near future.
One of the prime targets for observation are nearby Earth - size worlds such as TRAPPIST - 1d, and the closest known exoplanet to Earth, Proxima b, which orbits its star a mere 4.25 light - years away.
The TESS satellite, which will launch in 2017, will use four cameras to search for exoplanets around bright nearby stars.