Sentences with phrase «search nearby bright»
TESS — a spacecraft roughly the size of a washing machine — will search nearby bright stars for signs of planets.
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UP, UP AND AWAY NASA's TESS telescope launches from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on April 18 on a mission to search for planets orbiting 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.
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.